[Qgis-user] List protocol

[David Fawcett]

I think that in this day and age, people who need help with QGIS (or
anything else) come with the tools that they are using.  Whether someone
top or bottom posts really just depends on what their email client does by
default.

Most people out there that are new to OpenSource projects, the people that
we want to court and support have never even heard of the religious wars of
top vs bottom and are certainly not consciously choosing one over the
other.  On other lists recently, I have seen several people scolded for top
posting.  I just cringe because if I was them, I would leave and find a
different project or (a friendly proprietary software salesman... )

David.

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans at geograph.co.za>wrote:

> Hi,
> While we are debating list language, should we not also debate list
> protocol - like are we a top or bottom posting list?
> I tend to post according to the posting style to the message I am
> responding to.
>
> If you look at the recent top-post to a "bottom-post" message thread on
> the Spanish language debate, you'll see what I mean: Three "bottom posts,
> then all of a sudden a top post that directly references the last (bottom)
> post.
>
> It just gets messy, and as this list grows, we should perhaps consider
> gently but firmly adhering to jointly agreed upon protocols  -  including
> of course the famous (to all lists) thread-hijacking topic.
>
> Regards to all,
>
> Zoltan
>
>
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