On 06/30/2011 01:03 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Yasha Karant wrote:
>
>> As for top or bottom posts, I and many others with whom I have discussed this
>> point over a number of years prefer top posting so that one can immediately
>> get to the new information, ...
>
>    with all due respect, grow the f**k up.  top vs bottom posting has
> been a settled issue for *years*, and anyone who still thinks that
> their personal preferences have any value whatsoever needs to go back
> to AOL, and leave technical mailing lists to the grownups.
>
> rday
>

It is not duly respectful to anyone to use language such as you have in 
posted, professional discourse, irrespective of the comments or opinion 
of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

I was discussing this very matter with a colleague but half an hour ago; 
he/she serves as an editor on a well respected international academic 
journal.  Her/his opinion is that top posting is the only appropriate 
method.  Thus, there are differences of opinion.

May we all settle this once and for all if it is insisted that based on 
one's response ordering, threading, etc., work will be put into the 
dustbin (/dev/null, spam, trash, whatever)?  May the "owner/s" of this 
list put forward official standards of etiquette as well as clarity 
about the matter of threading, and the correct method(s) so that 
threading will be respected?

Yasha Karant