a more "technical" mailing list

René L. Reingard reingard at hispeed.ch
Tue May 3 18:43:59 UTC 2005


>> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:25:53PM +0200, René L. Reingard wrote:
>> Hi all there
>>
>> There is an other point I want to put forward to all writers of eMails.
>> Could you please - as far as possible - write your text in the
>> beginning  of the eMail text, ....


> Am Tue, 3 May 2005 18:35:57 +0100 schrieb Ewan Mac Mahon  
> <ewan at macmahon.me.uk>:

> ... encourages people to repost the entire previous message (or even the  
> whole of a thread)
> unaltered at the bottom of their message which wastes storage and  
> bandwidth.


Some do it in great length, even in this mailing list.


> Furthermore, top-posting shouldn't be necessary to help with
> finding the new material since the old material should be snipped to
> only leave necessary context....


Well, If people would do so!


> Please no; what you're asking for is generally (and disparagingly)
> refered to as top posting. There are a number of reasons why it's a very
> bad thing, and a quick google will find countless flamewars where they
> are hashed out at great length. In short top posting makes it hard to
> find the context for a post (bad for reading in archives), can make it
> much harder to follow a multipointed post,


Regarding, archiving, I do understand.



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