On Tuesday 29 March 2005 15:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Phil Labonte wrote: >> To quote the Wikipedia definition: >> "Top-posting is considered improper by some OLDER DEFINITIONS of >> Internet etiquette since it breaks down the flow of the thread:" >> >> It's time to embrace change, change is good. Top posting gis here >> to stay especially because of GMAIL and outlook... > >jeezus, can we just start two lists for every fedora-related topic? >one list will be for clueful people who don't top post, who don't > post in HTML, who properly trim their posts and who don't have > 30-line idiotic, company-mandated sigs whose only purpose is to > justify their corporate lawyers' existence. > >the other list will be for the annoying, clueless twits who think >linux mailing list behaviour should be mandated by what freakin' >outlook does. > >rday Finally, a solution to the problem that might actually work. ;-) Unforch, the mail server would have to translate the To: address according to whether or not the message contained top-posting I'd think, because we'ed otherwise fail at convincing said twits to use the right list. That shouldn't be too hard to code up in a bash script I'd think. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
