[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 10/17/2011 4:58 AM, Wolf Halton wrote:
> What gives
> anybody the right to rag about others' correspondence style, really?

If you are doing individual emails between friends, no one really, IMO, 
other than your friends.  And I do have a friend I've taken to task 
about his random method of replying to emails, especially as it pertains 
to our efforts to start a business.

But this is not email amongst friends.  This is group of individuals 
trying to communicate and share information.

In any group, you have to have a set of rules everyone must follow if 
the group is to function successfully.  It doesn't matter if the group 
is a car club, church group, management structure of a company, local 
government, examples could be almost limitless.

When folks choose not to follow those rules, the system breaks down and 
less gets accomplished.

Forums are a good example of this.  Ever read the last message in a 
forum, then spend15 minutes searching for the message the last poster 
was replying to?  Or, read a long post, and want to try to sort things 
in that post chronologically when some people have top posted, some have 
bottom posted, and others have  interspersed?   :-)  Personally, I've 
got better things to do than scroll back and forth through jumbled posts 
and long forum threads, which is why I don't use forums on a regular 
basis.  They waste my time.

Which is easier to search through, a filing cabinet where everything is 
organized by some system, or a filing cabinet where everything is just 
tossed in the drawer?  If everyone in a group, like this newsgroup, does 
whatever they want, you have example two of the filing cabinet.


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Ken

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