I agree top posting tends to be the most effective method for handling mailing lists
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > The easiest way to deal with such issues is use a decent mail client. I use > Gmail and it ensures that all the threads are together and in order. It > hides all the copies of old replies and given the copious amount of storage > it is no problem that all the crap is still there. > > When you argue that this is not best practice, my question to you is, when > has your best practice been re-evaluated for the last time.. Does it > consider the improved functionality that is there for you to have ? > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 31 March 2010 00:41, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello -- > > > > Some of the people posting to this mailing list don't seem to understand > > how > > to write a decent, readable reply to a mailing list thread. This makes > for > > far more noise than signal, as people wade through six copies of the > > foundation-l footer or eight old and irrelevant replies trying to find > the > > content of the reply to the previous message. > > > > The Toolserver wiki has a fantastic page that explains how to reply to a > > mailing list thread the Right Way.[1] If you suspect you've been Doing It > > Wrong, please have a read. > > > > Thanks! > > > > MZMcBride > > > > [1] https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
