Top posting [was disabling of XWindows start on Ubuntu]

[Scott Linnenbringer]

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:47 PM, staticsafe <me at staticsafe.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>> I would love to do that, but on some lists there would be no difference
>> between unsubscribing and that.
>>
>> This sort of thing varies from list to list and place to place.  Here,
> you'll get requested, advised, scolded (if you persist) every time for
> top-posting.  Since people respond better than that, I've never seen it
> come to moderator action.  I've been moderating for a year or so I think
> and have had more trouble with persistent OT comments or threads.  Most of
> my time by far is spent scanning the filter rejects to make sure good stuff
> gets through, helping newbies, and rescuing folks whose ISP has blacklisted
> us.  Not hassling people.  Fortunately.
>

You know - people using screen readers such as Orca will have the quoted
text read to them before the new text, and that can get very annoying
especially when nobody snips. I propose we change the standard to
top-posting to make Ubuntu-users more accessible.

/me ducks

Cheers,
 Scott
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