<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:paul@paulmellors.net">paul@paulmellors.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:paul@paulmellors.net">paul@paulmellors.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Quoting nicholas butler <<a href="mailto:nik@butlershouse.co.uk">nik@butlershouse.co.uk
</a>>:<br><br>> Okay im prempting the friday but im thinking about this now.<br>><br>> I know we all love to neticorrect each other on the various issues<br>> related to etiquette and manners so why not lets see if we can make a
<br>> news story from it ?<br>><br>> Top or Bottom ?<br>><br>> Posting on a Email that is.<br>><br>> Should we ?, could we ?, can we ? have a national Proper Posting day.<br>> Where every thread loving , mail list bashing geek spends the day
<br>> ensuring that they dont top post and that they add a link which points<br>> to a suitable TopPost/Bottom post website. Lets educate our netizens<br>> one email at a time ?<br>><br>> now , ive lit the fuse, I shall step back .
<br><br><br><br>personally i think it's a none issue that wastes everyones time<br>[including mine for replying to this email :)]<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I agree totally. Perhaps it would be a better use of all our resources (and much more polite) if we were to try to concentrate on the content of a message rather than the style/method in which it was delivered.
<br><br>I don't think anyone ever subscribed to a mailing list to be "educated" on their grammar, posting style, choice of email client etc.<br><br>Unless, of course, it was a mailing list called something like "grammar_posting_style_and_choice_of_email_client_etc_UK"...
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