X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DOSBox? In-Reply-To: (message from Rod Pemberton on Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:29:06 -0400) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2017 19:23:28 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Rod Pemberton writes: > Bottom posting is standard Usenet etiquette. First off, it's not bottom posting, it's threaded posting, like I'm doing. Bottom posting is discouraged as it makes the user page through reams of quoted message before getting to anything new. Trim and inline is the norm - context, not copy. > Please don't attempt to tell any further lies I object to your insults, and I was not lying. I stated that *this* forum is not a dictatorship, and it's not. Lest you forget, the djgpp newsgroup is gatewayed (and always has been, as per its charter) to the djgpp mailing list, which means your assumption that only usenet rules apply is false. The messages you were replying to did not originate on usenet. > as you know full well that bottom posting to Usenet was standardized: "Guidelines" are not requirements. I agree that including minimal context is useful, but that doesn't give me or you the right to force someone else to obey those guidelines. And certainly, the djgpp list has long encouraged people to be polite and civil, not contemptuous and demanding. Your rules are not everyone's rules. And your demand that the OP bottom post was itself top-posted, which I find amusingly ironic. You didn't even say "please" either. And you didn't trim the quoted text. And your signature block is two lines longer than the customary four.