"Brad Velander" wrote:
> Where is the relevance of your references? Who created and voted on
>those references?
unim****tant. These references IMNSHO don't need to be "external"
justifications. It's up to you to understand the idea and decide
whether to follow.
> They are a fools attempt to control and restrict something
nack. They thought about politeness and efficiency.
>that in it's inception was intended to be open and unrestricted by people
it's less a question of "restrict" but more of being polite.
I agree that top posting, maybe even with a full quote is _impolite_
to the recipient of a message (because those postings are inefficient
to read).
Since there are many recipients, the sender should spend some work on
the message.
BTW: This includes also proper formatting. I don't like to be pressed
to trim lines when I reply. I ask a new poster _once_ to set his news
client correctly. Next time I simply don't reply even if I could
commit something useful.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was aware of the necessity being polite, he
wrote: "Entschuldigen sie, dass der Brief so lang geworden ist, ich
hatte keine Zeit für einen kürzeren." - please excuse that the letter
became so long, I hadn't time for a shorter one. Today it seems to be
less im****tant.
And yes, the same applies to e-mails. Certainly I take the time to
create properly written and formatted mails. What else?
Oliver
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