[CentOS] Sorry

[Steve Clark]

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
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> 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
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All I can say to that rant is Wow!!!


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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