Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

[Alan Pope]

On 19 July 2013 09:14, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>
> This is not an acceptable topic of discussion for this list. You are
> expected to trim your citations to the minimum, and you are expected to
> place your reply *below* them. Those rules of basic consideration don't
> just go back to 2003; they go back to the 1980s or even beyond.
>
>
+1000

Seen this discussion happen so many times in so many places. I empathise
with your grumpy-ness.

But get_iplayer does *not* exist to facilitate that, and this list does
> not exist to facilitate discussion of it.
>
> The get_iplayer tool exists to allow *genuine* access to BBC content by
> those who are *supposed* to be allowed to access it, and for the purpose
> for which the BBC makes it available.
>
> Please do not poison these waters by discussing things on this list
> which do not belong here.
>

Agree with this 100% too.

I just hope the mailing list continues to exist and is active. I've been a
long time hater of forums. I'm a lurker on a hundred or more mailing lists
for various community projects, but I visit near zero forums. The overhead
of visiting so many different forums when I already have a passionate
hatred of them just means I'll never go there. So as a result I probably
won't see some of the discussions as they'll happen elsewhere.

:(

Al.