14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
11:18 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
dislikes top-posting. Top posting has been against
published netiquette
for years. However, as time has progressed people have glossed over some
of the stuff they think is too prissy (which in my own opinion means
they are being sloppy, and some may consider it rude).
I don't think it's that, as such. I think some application designers (email,
news) made poor decisions in making top-posting pretty much their default, and
acceptance (often forced, in a corporate environment) of those apps made it
hard for their users to do anything but top-post.
When all is said and done, the actual number of people who think top-posting
is the right thing to do is *very* thin on the ground - but some popular
applications do force peoples' hands somewhat.
I dislike signatures, mainly because some claim
corporate property or
confidentiality which makes little sense. There are a few that have
politically oriented signatures which has absolutely no place on the
list (ok, that one is policy-ish ;) ). If it was trivial to do, I think
I'd set the list to automatically remove all signatures
See my other post - problem there is that a fair number of posters *do*
include useful, legitimate contact details in their sigs. Often that may be
something as simple as info on how to remove any spam traps from their
displayed email address.
I'm sure it's possible to strip sigs - even if it's a tweak and recompile of
the mail list software - but it's a potentially bad thing to do even though it
would get rid of the moronic junk that some companies insist on adding to
employee emails :-(
Actually, dumping any sig with the word 'confidential' in it would probably
nuke nearly all the legalese ones, and dropping any with 'virus' in would get
the ones inserted by AV software (despite this list being text-only and so the
info is unnecessary) :-)
So it probably *could* be done. Is it worth the effort? No. :-)