On 12/14/06, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, on most Linux lists, rather than top posting (answering a post > above the email you are answering, it's considered better form to answer > inline, as if it were a conversation--that is, answer point A below > point A, point B below point B, etc. Otherwise it comes out like > > Yes. > With cream and sugar. > Would you like coffee? > How would you like it? > > :) > > The unselfish reason is that it makes it easier for anyone interested to > follow the thread. The selfish reason is that often the more > experienced folks won't even bother looking at something top posted, and > you lose the benefit of their expertise. > > See > > http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php
Thanks for the tip. I'm new to Linux mailinglists so I don't know stuff like the bottom posting. Thanks for being really nice about it and not getting mad at me. I know this might be a little off topic to say this stuff. But I'm worried about how my messages display. I use gmail, the online version and I'm worried about things like if my messages are in HTML. Since you didn't mention it I don't believe they are. I also do not hit enter by myself and gmail just wraps all the text. Does the text come up as one line to all of you? Or if I use gmail do I have to hit enter every once in a while? I wonder if gmail does this automatically. Since you aren't complaining I think it is alright. While I'm at this, what is a good standards compliant mail program that I could use on Arch? One that would do things like auto text wrapping and all that. Sorry if this is a bit too off topic. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
