Re: Chuck Falconer top posting again

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:26:09 -0800 (PST), I said, "Pick a card, any
card" and rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> instead replied:

>Can I make a possibly ridiculous suggestion and say that maybe this
>discussion has gotten way out of hand and needs to end?  If you guys
>were standing around the water cooler, someone would have told you to
>get back to work a long time ago.
>
>At this point, is anyone saying anything that makes a difference to
>the others?  Mostly I see words falling on relatively deaf ears, in
>the best case because they have already heard the arguments and made
>up their mind, in the worse case because they are po'd and aren't
>really listening to anything being said.
>
>Is this conversation accomplishing *anything*???

I find myself wishing and hoping beyond all reason that someone here
would call the bottom posting group a bunch of Nazis with Hitler at
their forefront just so this thread will have to die.

The real advice? Post wherever you like. Top, middle or bottom is
just fine. Do what makes you feel good. After all, until all the
goons start paying 100% of your Internet costs, this place is as
much YOURS as it is THEIRS.

Now, will somebody please tell Hitler to take his Nazis home with
him.
--
Ray

Ray Haddad wrote:

>The real advice? Post wherever you like. Top, middle or bottom is
>just fine. Do what makes you feel good. After all, until all the
>goons start paying 100% of your Internet costs, this place is as
>much YOURS as it is THEIRS.

Be aware, however, that if you refuse to follow social norms, 
some or possibly all of the readers will killfile you.  If
your goal is typing practice, that might be fine with you.
If you wish to communicate, perhaps "Post wherever you like"
isn't such a good plan.

It has been my experience that there are a few attributes of
Usenet posters which are excellent predictors of whether 
future posts from them will be worth the effort of reading.
Top-posters, those who engage in personal attacks and those 
who discuss politics/religion in technical newsgroups come 
to mind.