sometimes reply message in the mailing list goes to specific people .. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan < [email protected]> wrote:
> This point is much more important, as quoted from the FreeBSD-chat mailing > list. > > ----- > > 1. While top-posting is bad in the mailing list context, it is often > necessary in the corporate context. It took me a while to > appreciate this, but it's much easier for a secretary or a customer > support person to look through the bottom of an email for *all* > related correspondence than to dig through (possibly weeks-old or > months-old) email. You may have quoted what *you* think is > "relevant", but maybe you unknowingly omitted something important, > or maybe you didn't but the reader wants to be sure of that too. > If you quoted everything, you may as well top-post, rather than > force your reader to wade through pages of old stuff before getting > to your point. > > Most people are used to email in the corporate context and thus > used to top-posting. > > ----- > > If you have worked in corporate environment (even if you are an Open Source > company), you will appreciate that the trail from the reply of top-posted > email, will help you to track the communication that has happen previously, > very easily. > > I have never seen any Open Source mailing list to scold their user for top > posting. If they do, they will lose their user very fast. Too picky, and too > controlling. > > > > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:48 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting >> >> "Partially because of Microsoft's influence, top-posting is very >> common on mailing lists and in personal e-mail" >> >> 0_0 >> >> It is my concern since there's mailing list outside (not .MY) who's >> the moderator is VERY CONCERN about top-bottom posting so, >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-August/002565.html >> >> "while top-posting is annoying for old-timers on >> technical mailing lists, it's unfair to bash newcomers for it or to >> write "Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply"" >> >> >> We don't want such thing to happens. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > but you replied at top? >> > >> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:38 PM, saiful <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> like bottom >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:33 PM, [email protected] >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hi, >> >>> >> >>> I've hard time to use bottom posting especially when I use bottom >> >>> posting but people replied with top posting, so the practice is kinda >> >>> of useless. >> >>> Which one you prefer, and should we enforce bottom posting here in >> >>> OWASP-MY? >> >>> Or reply as you wish. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks. >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> >>> >> >>> OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> >>> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> >>> >> >>> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> >>> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> "When there are Thousand of People go against you and only one at your >> >> side, trust me, I'm the one - akusaiful". >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> >> >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> >> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> >> >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> >> >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> > >> > OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> > >> > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Owasp-Malaysia mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki >> http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia >> >> OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook >> http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 >> > > > > -- > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > > _______________________________________________ > Owasp-Malaysia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki > http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Malaysia > > OWASP Malaysia Wiki Facebook > http://www.facebook.com/pages/OWASP-Malaysia-Local-Chapter/295989208420 > -- *Fariz Luqman* The Chairman of SimpleLinux Visit: http://www.simplelinux.tk Fb: http://facebook.com/simpleLinux "There IS a Malaysian Linux Distro" --- Facebook: facebook.com/farizluqman
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