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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: apologyRe: apology
From: Grant Hardy <granthardy_at_telus.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:00:32 -0700 > I agree about the top posting thing, but simply because I press control and > R to reply to an e mail and start typing. I simply don't know how to > position my mail under the previous one using Outlook. If you could give > me > a clue to this then I would probably start using the list again. I stopped > writing mails because every time I did you told me off! Paul and list, Honestly, top posting is a great thing but there are much more important guidelines than that, IMO. Indeed, as this gentleman has just pointed out, there are now such stringent guidelines governing posts to this list that, particularly for new users just needing answers to a few quick questions, it's just not worth the trouble. Paul, you're a terrific writer, a knowledgeable user of technology, and a great help to the community, so I think resigning from the project is going a bit far. Instead, I think you should focus on cranking out tip after tip about Rockbox, rather than getting your blood pressure too high when you notice that someone has top posted. Honestly, in an ideal world, people would always know whether something was a support issue or whether it was merely something that they should look up in a manual...but this is not such a world, and I'm sure all of us have been guilty of not reading manuals at some point in our lives. You're of course not obligated to answer a question if you feel it's too obvious to deserve an answer, but if you're going to go to the trouble of producing a response, immaculately tailored to the strict netiquette of RB posting format guidelines, you may as well just answer the question instead of telling someone to check it in the manual. I get a good chuckle out of people who, for example, produce an indignant "just Google it!" response to someone, complete with an illustrative link that will take them to a Google search results page. The people in question always go on about how much trouble it is when people don't take the initiative and Google things for themselves...but then, why would they have gone to the trouble of producing a supposedly illustrative message complete with a Google search results link? Ironic...no? Cheers, and happy rockboxing, Grant ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2009-06-21 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |