[asterisk-users] Top Posting

[john at millican.us]

On 1/2/2013 12:00 PM, john at millican.us wrote:
> On 1/2/2013 11:30 AM, Richard Kenner wrote:
>>>> If things were properly trimmed, the email would be short enough 
>>>> that it
>>>> really doesn't matter that much if the new material is on the top or
>>>> bottom, but people who top-post and don't trim create really 
>>>> hard-to-follow
>>>> emails.
>>> Not really true often times when people do the right thing and post
>>> debug and conf files often required to get meaningful help.
>> Yes, but if you put those at the end, where they belong, people reading
>> the email can follow the thread quite easily and can ignore those if
>> they don't need them.  Certainly only a tiny part of such, if any at 
>> all,
>> should be included in a reply.
>>
> Ok folks, could not stop myself any longer.   This pissing and moaning 
> is foolish to say the least.  There was a post a while ago in the 
> original hijacked thread by Steve Edwards that gave a link to the 
> "rules of the list" at:
> http://www.asterisk.org/community/discuss/
>
> GO READ THEM!
>
> Directly before the list of Rules is:
>
> Show consideration. It's important to read the rules before posting on 
> a mailing list.
>
> Sage advice if you ask me, and yes I know nobody actually asked me.
>
> It is not hard to follow the rules .  If the nice folks at Digium took 
> the time to post rules we should at least TRY to follow them. If you 
> do not like the rules you can always petition Digium to change them 
> but, taking up bandwidth on the list in this all to frequent pissing 
> match is a futile waste of time.
>
> Grow up, follow the rules, have a good day.
> JohnM
>
PS. Did not intend to imply that it was Steve that hijacked the thread, 
in case anyone read my comment that way
JohnM