Greetpause seems very ineffective (Was: RE: Increased VolumesOfSpam)

Ken A ka at pacific.net
Mon Jan 22 23:34:55 CET 2007


Steve Campbell wrote:
> Doesn't anyone have any SA rules for top-posting, or bottom-posting? I 
> hate to have to start BLing people manually, cause I think it causes 
> swapping.

roflmao. and how do the Chinese bottom post?
Come on folks. This is a friendly list. Lets keep it that way.

Ken A.
Pacific.Net


> 
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Burchett" 
> <DrewB at united-systems.com>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:40 PM
> Subject: RE: Greetpause seems very ineffective (Was: RE: Increased 
> VolumesOfSpam)
> 
> 
>> Wow.  Now I've seen it all.  Blacklisting someone because they refuse to
>> follow an old, outdated mode of email transmission that I personally
>> find hard to follow.  Get with the program and stop whining about how
>> someone replies.
>>
>> Drew Burchett
>> United Systems & Software
>> Ph:    (270)527-3293
>> Fax:  (270)527-3132
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Gerard
>> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:34 PM
>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> Subject: Re: Greetpause seems very ineffective (Was: RE: Increased
>> VolumesOf Spam)
>>
>> On Monday January 22, 2007 at 04:16:07 (PM) Randal, Phil wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, it is!!!
>>>
>>> In fact, I so detest the "bottom post only" Nazis that you're having
>> the
>>> opposite effect to that which you intend.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I rarely reply to top posters. In this particular case, I had assumed
>> that you lacked the knowledge of how to implement placing the cursor at
>> the bottom of a reply automatically while using MS Outlook. Instead, I
>> find that you are simply  adamantine in your refusal to embrace bottom
>> or inline posting.
>>
>> Therefore, I have placed you on my BL to suppress having to hear any
>> further rants and or Nazis insults.
>>
>> By the way, you are familiar with Godwins's law, I presume. You have
>> provided an excellent example of it.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>>
>> -- 
>> Gerard
>>
>> http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/
>> http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
>> http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/trumpetpower-netiquette.html
>> http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/resources/formatting_email_replies/
>> http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/mail/using-mailing-list.html
>> http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12348&topic=250
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
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