--On Monday, August 26, 2002 12:50 AM -1000 Vince Sabio <vince@vjs.org>
wrote:
> Agreed on all points. It is for these reasons, plus the fact that having
> *some* subscribers top-post and other subscribers bottom-post (or what I
> refer to as "threaded posting") quickly renders the thread completely
> indecipherable, even in MAIL mode, that we have recently commenced a
> Jihad To Enforce Threaded Posting(tm) on all of our mailing lists. We've
> currently rolled it out on a trial basis to only a couple of lists, but
> so far the response seems to be better than expected. (Note that I
> expected roughly *zero* change in subscribers' posting habits, so any
> positive change is "better than expected.")
I don't know what's next - bouncing messages containing misspellings, on
the grounds that it distracts from the message content for some readers?
People think I'M strict, but I'm clearly an amateur next to the real
maillist mullahs :)
> P.S. -- The observant reader will note that this message posted to the
> list just fine, and was quite easily read, without resorting to the
> annoying and unnecessary substitution of dollar signs ($) for the letter
> "s" in words like "subscriber," "digest," etc. Nor is the substitution of
> the letter "z" any better. </editorial_comment>
Yes, on THIS list, and it's a damn good thing considering our central
topic! But so many of our own and others' lists do have those filters,
that masking becomes second nature, although as you suggest, some
subterfuges are uglier than others. :) (also note that this rebuttal was
quite easily read without resorting to fake HTML markups...)
Say, why don't we cook up a big RFC and a rat's-nest of new X-Headers to
communicate this meta-information automatically to $*bzkr1b3r5....... hehehe
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