[139532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Apr 11 15:12:30 2011
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110411152100.A6B6D1CC0F@ptavv.es.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
> Subject: Re: Top-posting
> Of late I have started to get responses from people (not even the person
> who top-posted) saying that I should f*** off and that they would post
> however they wanted. Very hostile and even threatening.
>
> I even manage to bottom post from my iPod. With cut and paste, it's
> really not hard, but I guess it's just beyond the capacities of some
> and somehow offensive to others.
Standard threaded (IE: not top-posted) replies have been the standard for
technical mailing lists on the net since I first joined one.
In 1983.
Anyone who has a problem with it can, in short, go bugger off. Really.
(And like you, Keith, because my current MUA, Zimbra, is moronic, I too
have to rethread myself by hand, quite a lot of the time. And I do it,
because -- like you -- I believe in The Commons)
Cheers,
-- jra
