From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:11:47 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Ted's absolutely right. It's clear to me that the official standard of the
WSFA list should be bottom posting. Anyone who can't follow a simple
convention like that should be considered a newbie and their comments should
be seen in that light.

Certainly there are more important things to get worked up about.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:twhite8 at cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:06 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting

----- 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