On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 08:55:24PM +0100, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: > 2009/9/13 Peter l Jakobi <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > Again, I'm not too fussed - I work in a Microsoft Environment where > most people do this - I respect the etiquette guidelines of the list > on this, but I don't usually castigate people for it. On a good day, my tolerance is a bit higher for this kind of inpoliteness. But after 10 hours or so this grows thin. And in my spare time after hours, there's also the added lack of payment for tolerating such behaviour. Top-posting might make sense to contain the full history within each mail in a 1:1 exchange in a biz setting. But it breaks BADLY as soon as more people participate (other than as silent cc:-to-archive or cc:-to-management recipients). In the general case it's really nice to observe that soon NOBODY will have either the complete list of recipients or the full history of the discussion. With subsequent wasted time, uninformed project members and more expensive side-effects. Get the peanuts, lean back and enjoy the chaos. But also be prepared for the risk of late-night after-hours obligatory-participation telephone conferences... A saner work-around for this would be a single mailinglist alias plus a list archive to keep the history. Like this list offers. But then there's no more "need" at all for keeping "the history as TOFU" and wasting a large number of recipients' time... What's that saying? "On the internet, it's always September". IMHO outlook's TOFU tendencies rather add to the mess school accounts and AOL created. Perhaps it's just time to extend the usual SPAM filter with a TOFU filter to blackhole such postings early both at the mailinglist alias-level and in the personal .procmailrc... . Maybe even with a polite posting pointing to the netiquette and some instructions on proper email reformatting for successful redistribution :>. -- cu Peter l Jakobi lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
