On 2013-11-14 12:13, David Kastrup wrote: > SoundsFromSound <[email protected]> writes: > > [fullquote deleted] > >> I had no idea this was the norm. I've always been writing on top - >> including the previous messages below my reply for years now, which >> I now assume was a byproduct of working as an IT consultant as a >> secondary job. It feels so unnatural for me to scroll way down to >> the bottom of a previous message > > You _don't_ scroll down to the bottom of a previous message. You > are _not_ supposed to leave the previous message in place _except_ > for those parts that you _actively_ refer to.
Perhaps some people listen to Gotterdammerung first and work backwards. :-) >> but if that is correct etiquette outside of tech support, and for >> mailing lists, then I will try my hardest to not top post anymore. >> Sorry in advance. Top-posting was (and may far all I know still be) the default setting in M$ Outlook, I suspect a lot of people learned the habit from there. > The really important thing is _not_ _to_ _fullquote_. We have > people doing a fullquote on daily digests of the mailing list. If we > get more than one on average doing that, the size of the digest will > grow exponentially. It also helps to read through all of a post, and remove irrelevant parts before sending it. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
