[Gllug] [O/T] Grr... new keyboard

[James Holland]

On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 09:26 +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On 11 Mar 2009, at 00:00, James Holland wrote:
> [...]
> > I'm not sure how reasonable it is, however the only comprehensible
> > answer that I remember reading last year in a similar discussion was:
> >
> > 'These are the rules of our group. Stick to them!'
> 
> 
> Well, I think they're quite reasonable: they merely state and explain  
> the implicit posting rules for mailing lists and newsgroups. The rules  
> aren't arbitrary; they've been slowly formed through decades of  
> experience and are the most effective way we know of to efficiently  
> communicate in this medium.

Things do change over time though. As has been previously mentioned, a
lot of these devices make it impossible not to top-post. It would be
better to let posts like this go unchallenged rather than moaning
incessantly...

> In any case, reasonable or not, those are the rules. 

As I said.


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