Mailing list woes

[Charlie Gray]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Top posting:
> 
> 	Of course you don't!
> 
> 	> Do you answer questions before they are asked?
> 
> Bottom posting:
> 
> 	> Do you answer questions before they are asked?
> 
> 	Of course you don't!
> 
> 
> Some people prefer top posting as they then won't have to scroll down to
> see the response to their question.  But others prefer bottom posting
> because that's the natural flow of asking a question, and then you get
> an answer.
> 

On the note of top-posting, and bottom posting and general mail-listing
etiquette. I would like to ask a question.

The Ubuntu guidelines recommend you snip messages and do not quote a
whole conversation, but then surely if somebody comes along half way
through, they will not know what is going on without reading each email.
So do you only quote the last text you are replying to and not the
previous people or irrelevant paragraphs?
-- 
Charlie Gray - <cgray at xelix.net>
PGP Key ID - 0xC28B6177
¡Ya basta!

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