Re: Netiquette Guidelines

David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Donald L McDaniel" <donmcdaniel2005@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>>>
>> That is your take. Since there is no "LAW" which governs the way
>> people post to the Usenet, noone can say "this is the way you do it,
>> and it must always be done this way." After all, a "convention"
>> only has as much force as people let it have. If someone decides
>> not to follow the convention, it has no force over him. Until the
>> Government decides to make laws controlling speech on the Internet,
>> that is all the force a convention will have on anyone who decides
>> not to follow it.
>>
>> Many others think differntly. Many think that the Usenet is a
>> wilderness where anything may be said at any time. This comes from
>> our American habit of upholding the 1st Amendment to the
>> Constitution.
>>
>> However, anyone who posts to the Usenet for any length of time comes
>> to the conclusion that politeness is better than having rights if
>> they want to communicate with others.
>>
>> --
>> Donald L McDaniel
>> Please reply to the original thread,
>> so that the thread may be kept intact.
>> ==============================
>>
>
> After *years" of being called a Top Posting turd and other such nasty
> titles, I started to use FidoLook in conjunction with OE6 to bottom
> post.
>
> I find it amazing that they can deal with enmasse spammers like "R o
> n a l d L. G r o s s i" but if you
> Top Post you are the scum of the Earth.
>
> I too pointed out in the RFC -- "This memo does not specify an
> Internet standard of any kind."
> It didn't help.
>
> I wonder what OE7 will look like ??

Like OE 6. It is my understanding that there will be little or no
change at all to OE with the introduction of IE7.

And I use OE Quotefix to make it easier to bottom-post.

A couple of years ago, we had a virtual war in this group over top vs.
bottom, and at the time I was a top poster, but I mainly argued that it
should be whatever the each poster is confortable, but a MVP who was
advocating bottom posting, but was level-headed about it, got me
thinking, and it was not too long after that, that I started bottom
posting. I still think each person should decide what right for
themselves, but that MVP has had my respect ever since, but I don't
think that their are too many that don't respect Torgeir around here.

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