[Klug-general] top-posting

J D Freeman klug at quixotic.org.uk
Thu Mar 1 12:56:28 GMT 2007


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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:33:38AM +0000, George Prowse wrote:
> Well those people are idiots and the lists are obviously not worth being 
> on. If the lkml, all gentoo, debian and every other distro lists and 
> other lists i have ever seen dont care that much then it cant matter 
> that much (which is what i wrote in my original post)

I am pretty certain that you would be removed from many debian lists for
it, as well as the lkml.

I am on the arm linux mailing list, and once a month we get sent a FAQ
and a list of rules, including one explaining how top posters will be
removed.

> It is pretty shallow to not help someone just because of them top 
> posting, would you not help someone who had broken down at the side of 
> the road just because you disliked their car?

You want help? goto the effort of helping yoursefl get help.

Its a two way thing.

J
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