On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:17 PM, gt <codered12@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello folks, i'll probably get flamed for reviving a very controversial, yet consistently brought up topic.
I have seen a similar thread last year, and every other day, someone points out to someone that top posting is bad.
I was off the list for a while, and now when i came back, the story is still the same.
I know top posting is bad, and i too sometimes preach people to avoid it. But from what i've seen, most of the times, people don't bother, or simply don't know what's wrong.
Instead of having top-posting related mails in every thread, there should be a better way out.
I suggest all of the top-posting haters should including one of these links or similar in their signatures.
http://idallen.com/topposting.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
Also, we can have a forum and mailing list etiquette drive for a few days, with mention in the arch linux news, the mailing list, and setting it as the topic in the irc channel also.
I know this is probably overkill, but it'll probably inform a lot more people about these issues than some stray posts in every other thread.
PS: Since arch is always ahead of the other distros in adopting new stuff and bringing about change, let's be the first ones to spread some netiquette.
Perhaps you could do something more useful with your time. For example, you could write chromium browser plugin that forces bottom-posting in gmail...