Re: [tdf-moderators] Mailing list behavior

On 05/09/2013 08:26 PM, Tom Davies wrote:

> Anne, what the bottom posters want is to make it awkward for people.

It is exactly the opposite. Bottom posting makes it easier to understand
the context. Top posting makes it not just awkward but impossible to
understand the context, and forces to go through the entire conversation
to get the meaning of a single line.

> Notice that the Netiquette guide is from several decades ago, it's
> pre-hand-helds, pre-tablets, even pre-mobile-phones.  It's deeply
> routed in ancient technology and old ways of doing things from an era
> that has long since gone.

You should not be a moderator, then. The Netiquette has been regularly
updated, and is regularly ignored by people using tablets and mobile
phones (but this is not a good reason to change good habits).

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