[asterisk-users] Top Posting

[Steve Totaro]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:00 PM, john at millican.us <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
>

I became a list member way before any such rule and never had to click
through and agree to these update ToS.

I am grandfathered in.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro