[wlug_org] Re: [wellylug] Suggestion and apology

[Tony Wills]

At 22:35 13/08/2005, Mark wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Tony Wills wrote:
>>At 18:16 13/08/2005, John wrote:
>>>After a recent discussion off list regarding the top posting issue
>>>...
>>
>>At the severe risk of re-igniting that debate
>>...
>
>For the record I sent a _single_ email to him offlist indicating that he'd 
>obviously missed the major hints dropped, and that it was good manners to 
>comply with simple netiquette that is generally expected.
>...
>my personal thoughts. They have no tie to WellyLUG and any policy which 
>may or may not exist.

(I wasn't sniping at you :-)
But it seems if we are going to avoid netiquette wars we need a standard to 
quote and point new (and current) users at.

Personally I use such a variety of forums that I don't find any great 
problem with whatever style people want to use, but have a great problem 
with people who assert their style/preference is the standard and everyone 
else should conform - if the group wants a standard then they'd better 
state it (at the very least it would short circuit these off-topic 
arguments), even if that is just a pointer to some "netiquette" elsewhere.

As for people being expected to join the group and pick up the groups 
standards by osmosis, I think that's asking too much (hasn't worked for me ;-)

Tony.