Uwe Grauer wrote: > Frank Cazabon wrote (not): > >>> If only the relevant parts are quoted you won't have to scroll that >>> much. I don't see how quoting the whole post and writing new stuff >>> on top of it is going to help the readers. >>> >>> > > The above was my text and because you didn't show this, now it looks > like it was your text - which is bad. As you seem to be using > thunderbird, i'm quite clueless how you did manage this. > Is this caused by a misconfiguration? > > >> So you would rather I do inline replying like this? Or bottom posting >> as I see Ed and Paul seem to do? I think I tend to do inline posting if >> I see it as being a point by point comment and if it helps the reader >> follow what I am saying, but in this case the whole previous message was >> applicable, so I left it in, just in case anyone wanted to review what I >> was talking about. Being new to this list I would like to comply with >> the standards. >> > > There are different standards. > Sometimes it is better to do inline quoting as you can better see the > answer to a question. Sometimes only quoting the relevant context and do > bottom posting is nicer. > > This is an example on how not to do it: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected] > > Lots of unrelated text at the bottom to just let others know that it > worked for you to try with a copy of Dabo. > > Of cause the talk about posting styles is getting offtopic. > The subject "Dabo 0.9.1 ran webupdate now broken" doesn't fit either. > > Uwe > [excessive quoting removed by server]
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