From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LyspW-0004lZ-Kz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:18:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD55DE0ADC; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f165.google.com (mail-ew0-f165.google.com [209.85.219.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A18F7E0ADC for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so702543ewy.34 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DdbL7pS5boSTUZUt4dEeAmQpGY9YiFlzsfeZeCiJjjw=; b=QncO2CeWq7axn59uhKl78jJZYzjtWOFhjNPMgGJ4qioUq+EjumsqN9b5mEdpDlkSeI z1AEXIkAlMWPV+ePpwRYjjPrhupm0VEEDJs36eQR3KYASs3uztL4yzBww4dPQbBgYazf rhbJyaYcqNuxu0bh6L2nYnWHgKSzC2kjcRGW8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ktbtERVEhVbx5YUDECySqRkFxS119oWNOH7SL8EVguD5keztU2xVSFRbG/mZGa/fVy kwTywv0Gq10LDddLXz5W0xB+Mzl1DmrB79bTirtYnT8SdrwJqA3nPIc/n/kdq8qfPanW H9m3W82wOImNrzoOawT/hlDTE0+msmX7mAn8I= Received: by 10.216.52.204 with SMTP id e54mr966305wec.171.1240946335980; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.163.124? (r163h124.dixie-net.com [64.89.163.124]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g9sm329354gvc.22.2009.04.28.12.18.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49F75698.1060704@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:18:48 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090420 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin... References: <20090428180343.GA8275@linux1> <20090428193929.37546812@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200904282100.00512.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200904282100.00512.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 27046180-c532-4c1f-8606-5859f230b4b3 X-Archives-Hash: 3174883841a1684759f170fa2920fe1d Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >> >>> As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, >>> because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip >>> over all of the quoted material. I find it more convenient sometimes to >>> hear the newest material first. >>> >> That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for >> top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be >> possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. >> > > I'm sure the regulars here will be quite happy to make an exception for the > few blind users we have. Just like we tolerate the BlackBerry users who cannot > post any other way. > > As for the rest who think it's their right to ignore long-established > unwritten (but no less valid) codes of conduct, I just do to them the same > thing I do to stupid users at work who refuse to use English: > > plonk. > > > And there is always the blacklist as well. Once added to that, it's hard to get back off the list. After all, if they send them a email to ask to get took off, they won't get the message. o_O Dale :-) :-)