On 05/16/2014 06:40 PM, Original Woodchuck wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:27:23PM -0400, Steve Clark wrote: > >>>> Could someone explain again why we are not suppose to top post? > It's polite and shows you are a gentleman. It's in the same category of > "consideration for others" as keeping to your locale's preferred side of > roads, hallways and stairways, restricting flatus in elevators, dressing > in clean clothes that cover your locale's taboo parts of the body, chewing > with closed lips, cleaning teeth, ears, noses and butts in private, > moderating the urge to scratch every single itch, not speaking in foul > language in front of decent people, using correct spelling and grammar, > not spitting, especially on carpets, and suchlike meaningless niceties. > > In other words, it's part of pretending that one is not a baboon. > > It is true we are apes. We are the apes who pretend to be better > than that. > >> Well I find people get very upset about it, and to me in the grand scheme of things it >> seems pretty low on the totem pole. > It's almost as annoying as using funny fonts and failing to use fmt(1) > to wrap lines at 72 characters. (So called flowed text.) > > Even worse is failing to trim posts of extraneous verbiage. > >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Stephen Clark >> *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* >> Director of Technology >> Phone: 813-579-3200 >> Fax: 813-882-0209 >> Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com >> http://www.netwolves.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > And .sigs longer than the message. > > In the last few months, I've done some top posting in order to conform > to the local norms of certain mailing lists (not this one), which I have > noticed consist mostly of lamers. Today, I take the "never again" oath. > > BTW, the "totem pole" figure of speech here is inappropriate. "Low > on the totem pole" refers to low social status, not low priority or > importance, unless your intention was to accuse people who format their > email according to the received standards as being low-class individuals. > > I point out to you that in the area of manners, it matters not a whit > that you consider some behavior inappropriate, vulgar or even vicious. > It matters what the other person feels; that is why there are no rules > of polite behavior for when you are alone. Your goal (in the area of > manners and etiquette) is to cater to what pleases others, not yourself. > > I'm not telling anyone what to do. I'm saying what is expected of them; > meeting the expectations of others is one's own choice. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > All I can say to that rant is Wow!!! -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com