[ILUG] open list abuse

Ken Guest ilug at ken.guest.cx
Thu Sep 1 21:17:01 IST 2005


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:35:30PM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Ha almost straight away you do not know if the topic has anything to do
> with the contents of the mail. :)
> 
> [note - if you think what follows is anything other than a plea for sane
> posting then, I'm afraid that you are very much mistaken]
> 
> It is about time that the list owner took agressive and decisive action
> against the almost criminal top posting by some people.
> 
> 6) read
> 4) people read from top to
> 2) If you want to follow this item then you have to check the numbers on
> the side.
> 1) Lets look at it this way.
> 3) Up until the advent of some very brain dead mailers and their owners,
> 5) bottom and it was easy enough to
> 
> So, please now agree with me that top posting is a problem, answers and
> suggestions below please.
> 

Just read the ILUG FAQ guys
http://www.linux.ie/community/ILUGfaq.php

It explains a lot re top-posting, reply-to headers, reasons for why the list is
still open etc etc.

k.
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