[wellylug] Epson printer under Linux

[David Antliff]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Mark Foster wrote:
> I guess all the comments about top/bottom posting lately missed a few
> people? :P

People deliberately and repeatedly going against the convention to 'prove 
a point' are simply proving they are rude IMNSHO. If you join almost any 
civilised internet forum or mailing list and start breaking their 
conventions (e.g. "me too" posts, resurrecting dead threads, cross 
posting, creating multiple threads, TOFU, disguised links to porn, posting 
in HTML, etc) you are sure to get flamed and/or banned and you certainly 
won't get much useful feedback.

Newcomers to a community should do as the existing members do. It's common 
courtesy. If you have a better way to do it, by all means share, but don't 
just rudely disregard the request and blunder on and annoy people.

This has got nothing to do with diversity or lack of tolerance towards 
other's ideas. It's entirely to do with clear communication, manners and 
etiquette.

The basic variation is top or bottom posting. For efficient communication, 
only one of these should be used. I propose bottom posting, since that is 
what most people here use. Top posters should be politely warned and if 
they deliberately persist, ignored.

That is all I wanted to say.

-- 
David.