From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:05:43 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Haggerty" <Paul.Haggerty at noaa.gov>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 3:25 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting

[...]
>
> The posting style gudes aren't requirements.  So why the flamefest?  Why
> can't bottom-postphiles just be happy with their bottom-posting and
> leave us top-postphiles alone?  Why must we constantly be "corrected"?
> Bottom-posting drives me up a wall, but I don't scream "STOP BOTTOM
> POSTING!"  I would appreciate it if bottom posters could return the
favor.

Few things convince me more readily that someone is losing an argument and
knows it than accusations of "flaming" or "flamefest"s.  No one is
screaming at you and there is no cause for hysterics.  I wonder:  does Miss
Manners get this kind of response?

--Ted White