Am Di., 27. Feb. 2024 um 14:47 Uhr schrieb Bryan Smith <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 9:15 AM Ottavio Caruso via lpi-examdev > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Am Di., 27. Feb. 2024 um 12:13 Uhr schrieb G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>: >> > On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 4:12 AM Ottavio Caruso via lpi-examdev >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The LPI should make a separate certification on how to bottom post. >> >> That one would be actually useful. >> > >> > Hi Ottavio, >> > I think that if someone has a comment that doesn't need context from >> > another email, then a short top post is acceptable. >> > Also, a bottom post with a two line response and 70 lines of unhelpful >> > context, since you are changing the subject of the thread, should also be >> > avoided. I almost missed your content and was thinking that you had hit >> > Send before typing in your content. >> >> And this is exactly what happens when someone top-posts, instead of >> bottom posting. >> >> I am too old for this list. I don't fit in, I grew up using computers when >> there were no certifications and people stuck to some >> "netiquette". >> >> See what I've done here? I have revealed my age. Nobody talks of >> netiquette any more. Linux is the new Windows, alas. > > > O'Reilly [UseNet] posting guidelines (which also worked for e-Mail too ... > read on) ... bottom posting, changing the subject, etc... But that was back > in the days before Lotus and Microsoft on the Internet, let alone Google.
We also had the "no html in email" rule, by the way. The slack I got for posting an HTML email on the Debian mailing lists back in 2004-5! What about the "Behave like a proper Unix admin" certification, LPI? -- Ottavio Caruso A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
