Threadtiquette

Jeff Wilson · 08 Jan 2011, 01:13 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:13:00 -0600
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
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On 1/7/2011 3:22 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> Once again: Please top-post, everyone. Not only do I hate scrolling down
> through text I have already read to see people's new remarks, but it is
> what civilized people do.

In the same sense that many members of most civilizations have made a 
practice of disrespecting the established customs of society into which 
they insert themselves, sure. Perhaps we could restrict messages that 
refer to our personal religious affiliations to certain days of the week 
as well?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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