[Gllug] here we go again... (was: Light weight GUI for Linux)

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:08:54PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:32 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 
> > By the way, if your response to this is to say "just change the culture of
> > the company" then you need to get out more.
> 
> No.  After a number of embarrassing email disasters in the company I
> used to work for, BOTTOM posting was MANDATED - failure to comply would
> first receive complaints from the managers, and would ultimately result
> in disciplinary action if it persisted.  There was a notable improvement
> in the quality of reply after this edict - users began to actually read
> their emails!

Veeery interesting. Could you share as much of what happened & why it caused
an issue with us please. It would be very useful in arguments that the
rest of us would use. Do redact (ahem) those bits that you don't want to be public.

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