On 24 Jun, Noel Paton wrote:

[crosspost reset (you fibbed)

I meant that I hadn't reduced the crossposting /more/. Ideally I would
do no crossposting.

, since SOME people may be interested in your thought-police
attitudes]

On comp.sys.acorn, no, they really wouldn't be:
http://www.geocities.com/~banksp/Archives/Welcome.html


The reason I didn't remove the cross-post in the first place was that the
subject matter was relevant to the group, since it appeared to originate
from it.

The subject matter of the posts was personal chit-chat between yourself
and others you knew - pure noise of no relevence to the topic or any of
the groups being posted to. No doubt that is fine on the group you
subscribe to, but readers of the other groups are requesting that you
don't do this. Please act considerately. If you won't take our advice,
take the advice contained in the guide to posting you include in your
own signature.


The remainder of your reply doesn't seem to have anything to do with my
post, so I'm not sure why you chose to include it, but FYI...

The reason I top-post is because I like to read from the top down, rather
than stand on my head.

http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html , but more importantly in your
particular case, you actually put the quote beneath your signature.
This means that in well behaving clients (
http://www.xs4all.nl/~js/gnksa/gnksa-evaluations.html ) the quote is
automatically stripped when replying, because signatures are
automatically stripped.


I do NOT appreciate thought-police emails to my addy - if you want to say
something, say it in public, where people have the opportunity to comment

Quoting from the first link I've given above, '... failure to check on
the appropriateness of your post generally results in you being
reminded, frequently politely, of your mistake - both publicly and
privately'. Again, this is not something you shouldn't have expected.
Indeed, these sorts of messages are best sent privately by email, since
their whole purpose is to reduce the amount of noise on the newsgroup.

Apologies again to everyone, especially if this gets sent back to
csa.misc, but I'll end my part in the thread here.