[GRLUG] Linux desktop marketshare

[Collin Kidder]

Just to settle this quickly (though it's getting old)

I've never ignored him but I'm far from the only one to complain that 
his messages are hard to read. Regardless of whether he's got one eye, 
three fingers, a peg leg, and no teeth it's still very difficult to 
read. I don't think it's necessarily wrong to ask someone to post in a 
reasonable fashion.

Someone here has already mentioned a good way to fix it -- That is, to 
modify the list software to reformat messages a bit better. Then he can 
post as narrow as he wants and nobody will care.

I for one am not infuriated by any of this. Slightly annoyed at how 
narrowly he posts? Sure. Do I like bottom posting? No. There's plenty of 
little nitpicky things that I'm not the biggest fan of. But none of this 
is that big of a deal to me. There seem to be some people who are more 
bothered by it though.

Let's just all agree to ignore whomever posts in an irritating fashion 
from now on. So Bob, post in 20 character wide columns and don't expect 
too many replies but don't expect any more criticism either. If people 
don't like top posting then ignore people like me. ;-)

Rick Vargo wrote:
> You guys are jumping to conclusions with no basis here and attacking
> somebody because you don't like the way he posts.  An the funny part is
> that you are not attacking him because of the content but the format. 
> This is very petty.  There is no reason to attack Bob for his messages. 
> Maybe he is visually impaired and uses assistive devices but doesn't
> like to divulge that information?   There could be dozens of reasons his
> message format is the way it is...  If you get this infuriated over
> little things I would hate to see what happens if your kid spills
> something on the rug.  Do you beat them?  Please grow up and get back to
> topics of Linux.
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