Shoe pounding

[Geoff Nathan]

Interestingly I've been sternly lectured about the inappropriateness of bottom-posting ('Don't you know it's a violation of netiquette?'). I agree we should be more careful about mindlessly 'replying', and perhaps resist the one-line zingers, at least to some extent. But, on the other hand, years of time spent together (as this list represents) make such restraint somewhat difficult.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Shoe pounding
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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 07:01:42AM +0000, ronbutters at AOL.COM wrote:
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> >  Couldn't the list owner set ADS-L to cut off messages
> > longer than, say, 100 lines? That would create a problem for
> > bottom feeders, but they are declining in number because
> > top+posting appears to be the default mechanism for most
> > e-mail systems.
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> It would create a bigger problem in that there are a very
> large number of messages here that legitimately exceed 100
> lines.
>
> It would be better if we could get people to bottom-post and
> to appropriately edit their responses, but I highly doubt we'd
> be able to successfully manage this.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
> ADS-L
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