[asterisk-users] Top Posting

Steve Totaro stotaro at totarotechnologies.com
Wed Jan 2 14:31:23 CST 2013


On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:25 PM, john at millican.us <john at millican.us> wrote:
> 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
>

What the hell are you implying?  The local police love me, I am in
good standing with the ATF, FBI, DoD, DoS, USAID, DoE, DoL, and NSA.

IRS wants some money in April but don't they always? LOL.

Thanks,
Steve T



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