Re: [tlug] Top Posting

["A. Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:42:33AM -0500, Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> I feel the best policy is Godwin's: to just delete top-posted email outright.

That has a few disadvantages. Top posters who are simply ignorant and
would otherwise have reformed, end up clueless to what has happened.

Secondly, there won't be any deterrent for lurkers who have yet to top
post.

I think the three-strike rule can work really well if enforced.

> If the poster is not willing to play by our rules, he or she should not expect
> to glean the benefits of this community.

And they are "the rules", not just "our rules".

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A. Sajjad Zaidi
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