Top Posting....

[David Curry]

Craig White wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 13:43 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
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>no problem - just thought that I would mention it.
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>I think I have decided to always top post from now on just thinking that
>it will aggravate David Curry to do it is good enough reason I think.
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 :-)  Looks like you are pretty clueless, Craig.   I don't really give a 
twit how people compose their responses to list messages.  What 
aggravates me is the total disregard some people show for the true 
fedora linux experts like Alexander Dalloz, Paul Howarth and several 
others who so generously grant the benefit of their expertise to 
newcomers and long-time linux users alike. 

Disregarding the message composition preferences of Alexander, Paul, et 
al makes it harder for them to be helpful to others, takes up more of 
their time to read & pare, adds to their work burden, and may well 
result in reducing the number of people who benefit from their 
expertise.  Refusal to respect their simple requests is an outright 
affront and denal of simple human courtesy where it is very much deserved.

Given the prevalence this week of message threads with "top posting" in 
the title, and the numbers of other messages containing requests for 
people to avoid top posting, I see little to no credibility in claims by 
several posters that as newbies they were/are unaware of the list 
convention regarding top posting.

>hmmm...have to think about this
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>Craig
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Feel free to follow thru on your top posting idea, Craig.  Perhaps I am 
the only person on the list that perceives such an action as an affront 
to those making substantial contributions to the fedora community.