bbulsara23_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
>
>>2nd request: Why do you think the charter says this?
>>
>
>
> Joel, missed your first post. My apologies for the delay in replying.
>
> You are right. The charter you put together (and thank you very much
> for the effort) for cdos says nothing about top, bottom, interleaved
> posting styles.
>
> http://members.cox.net/oracleunix/ORACLECH.HTM
>
> I revisited this page months back and, from memory, recall something
> along the lines of "folks in this group don't like top-posting". The
> modification timestamp
> (http://members.cox.net/oracleunix/readme-cdos.htm) says "last updated
> May 28, 2005". Possibly the quote was removed or I am thinking of a
> different charter for a different newsgroup. It's not there now anyway.
>
> So here's a revised question:.
>
> Q. Should top, bottom, or interleaved posting to cdos be the posters
> preference or the consensus preference of people that read this
> newsgroup?
>
> I think if the answer to the question above is the latter then we
> should discuss revising the charter. If the consensus is that we leave
> the charter as it is, then the constrant stream of posts made to ask
> people to stop top posting (and containing little other content) have
> little validity and should cease.
>
> Comments anyone.
>
> Regards
> Barry
If the charter of the c.d.o. groups does not specifically forbid top
posting ... I would support making a change to the charters. In-line
posting is not top-posting and is a valuable, and sensible, way to
post and should continue to be allowed.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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Received on Wed Jan 04 2006 - 12:53:34 CST
