[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Top/Bottom Posting [WAS: Hello to en_GB team]

[Ed Hargin]

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Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 21:41, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>> A quick list etiquette request: please trim your posts if all you're going
>> to do is reply with one line of text.  18 kilobytes of email for 62 bytes
>> of text is not optimal :)
> 
> I'm probably going to start a flamewar with this, but this is one reason why I 
> discourage top-posting. Top-posters have a habit of leaving reams of text 
> unnecessarily quoted below their message.
> 
> References:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
> http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
> http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html
> http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/email-style.html
> 
> 

Perhaps an accepted etiquette for posting to the mailing list, linked
from the main page, would be appropriate?  I know I'm still not sure if
top or bottom posting are preferred here.  Additionally things like
line-length, sig-length etc. could have guidelines associated with them.
 Not sure if this would be a good idea necessarily (i.e. makes things
prescriptive, when we only really are looking for consideration when
posting).

Ed
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