Do you have a blue flashing light in your hat? The only posts I have seen
from you lately are repremanding people for bad grammar, the wrong line
length or top-posting. Whilst I agree with your comments, it is becoming
very irritating!
If he only said "pretty please" would that be effective?
The problem is that more people aren't taking the time to
correct posters. Recognize that what makes usenet work is
that there are some conventions, which if not policed to
some degree, will be ignored by those too ignorant of them
or their value. "Some" people think it isn't a problem,
while trying to simultaneously ignore that the whole reason
usenet works is because others AREN'T ignoring the
conventions.
It's like littering - you might throw a bit of trash in your
yard and soon the wind blows it away never to be seen again,
but if everyone continually did this, the effect would be
trash everywhere. What if everyone posted without fixed
line breaks like Mr Walsh does? IF that is what everyone
did, then it would be a per-forum convention and everyone
would have to, and could then, expect to reformat every
message instead of having any preservation of what the
author intended.
At some point Mr Walsh made a brief claim that everyone's
newsreader should reformat his posts for him so he doesn't
have to follow conventions. He fails to realize not all
newsreaders do this function and some deliberately don't, to
preserve the author's intentions because in a modern society
where everyone has been exposed to the written word since
early childhood, it is fairly reasonable to assume that if
an author chooses a unique format that it is for some
benefit to the READER to preserve that format. Here it is
the opposite, the reader must reformat it just to make it
readable at all, nevermind any formatting for a normal level
of readability.
Don't be irritated, be glad that most people manage to
follow the conventions and only a few need reminded of them.
Certainly from a FSB protocol