[asterisk-users] Top Posting

john at millican.us john at millican.us
Wed Jan 2 11:25:56 CST 2013


On 1/2/2013 12:20 PM, Steve Totaro wrote:
> 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
So Steve, can I steal this and send it to the IRS? The ATF? Local Police 
Department? <G>  Wouldn't that be nice!  Sorry couldn't  resist.
JohnM



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