[Foundation-l] Creating articles in small wikipedias based on user requirement
Jon Harald Søby
jhsoby at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 09:22:00 UTC 2010
2010/6/13 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>
> Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > This is not a problem. We use the numbers that we have. We could ask
> Google
> > for such numbers.. They might even be willing to share them with us.
> > Thanks,
> > GerardM
> >
>
> This is not only directed at you Gerard, but to all the
> top-posting perverts (sorry, but I do think you are in
> the minority on this issue), on the list.
>
> If you can't be bothered to adhere to the tested and
> true conventions that ensure maximal intelligibility
> of extended conversations on mailing lists, newsgroups
> and talk pages on wikies, *do* at the very _minimum_
> at least truncate the messages you are replying at, to
> the very minimum necessary to retain context. I confess
> reading the above missive by you, Gerard, and poring over
> the text below, that it allegedly is a response to, for a good
> five minutes or more. I still cannot fathom which particular
> bit of text -- if any -- it is a message that can be considered
> to remain on topic; even remotely.
>
> KTHX.
>
>
> Yours,
>
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>
Tell me, how is top-posting worse than derailing a productive thread with an
off-topic rant?
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