Etiquette comment and question

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Saturday 17 June 2006 17:38, Elaine de Saxe <coolowl at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> The setup with AppleMail (I'm using OSX - one day Ubuntu but not just
> now) means without any fiddling at all, if I hit 'reply' I get the
> posting address. Mind you I also get the whole of the digest which I
> have to edit out, but that's a setting I have put into Mail's Prefs.

If you hit "Reply" to a message that has a "Reply-To" header, the message will 
be addressed to the address given in that header, not the list. This is why I 
dislike the use of Reply-To on mailing lists.

> And I have a question, too ... I thought I had a good grasp of
> Netiquette but apparently not. Would you mind explaining what 'top
> post' and 'bottom post' is? I make the guess it's where the quote is
> placed. Etiquette aside, I've got used to reading both and it doesn't
> matter at all. What *does* matter (not on this list!) is the posters
> who quote, re-quote and quote again without editing. Now that really
> does set my teeth on edge!

You can find a good summary at Wikipedia: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting

Bottom-posting means that you are replying below the previous message. 
Conversely, top-posting implies that the response is above the previous 
message.

I prefer to bottom-post (as can be seen in this e-mail), unless I am quoting a 
discussion that uses top-posting. Consistency is important as well.

> Reading the rest of the digest I see there is a comment about
> starting threads. I've lost the plot with that in an effort to have a
> clear subject line - the try and describe what I'm covering in the post.

As Ben has shown us, it's best to create a new message when starting a new 
topic. Replying to a message and removing the Subject and Body does not 
remove it from the thread.


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