[arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Top Posting Revisited

Rogutės Sparnuotos rogutes at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 16 08:10:30 EST 2011


Kevin Chadwick (2011-12-16 11:20):
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:06:50 +0530
> Piyush P Kurur wrote:
> 
> > I am in support for this action. Besides this adds an additional
> > "feature" to the mailing list. Once one is tired of a mailing list,
> > instead of unsubscribing via normal ways just sent a top posted reply
> > to the next email from the list :-)
> > 
> > (Granted using this feature can be a disaster in certain mailing lists
> > --- for some unexplained reason OpenBSD lists comes in my mind first)
> 
> That's rediculous everyone should be free to post and free to choose
> what they send to a killfile. You could add a per user related killfile
> mechanism to the mailing list. That way the sender doesn't know he gets
> limited response for a reason and won't just use a different email, but
> I feel less strongly and think it's not worth the effort?

Remember how others wrote that bottom posting forces us to contemplate on
the quoted parts? I don't know if you did, but I don't understand what you
are saying and, incidentally, you forgot to quote Alan's statement,
without which Piyush's reply is obscure.

-- 
--  Rogutės Sparnuotos


More information about the arch-general mailing list