Hi, Jack Craig wrote: > PS: does the list still have a preference for top or bottom posting replies?
Thanks for asking!
Top posting is (still) strongly discouraged. The preference
is to reply below the text to which you are replying, while
avoiding quoting the entire message and replying at the
bottom.
The list guidelines, which are included in the footer of
each message -- and were quoted twice in the message I'm
replying to ;) -- state (in the "Proper posting style"
section¹):
Top posting is replying to a message on "top" of the
quoted text of the previous correspondence. This is
highly unwanted in mailing lists because it increases
the size of the daily digests to be sent out & is highly
confusing and incoherent. By default, most email
clients use this (includes gmail & hotmail). Please,
remove the irrelevant part of the previous
communication(in case of more than a single
correspondence) and use bottom, interleaved posting.
Do not over-quote by the hierarchy level in the
correspondence.
Bottom, interleaved posting is replying to the relevant
parts of the previous correspondence just below the
block(s) of sentences. For a comment to another block of
sentences of the same quoted text, you should move below
that relevant block again. Do not reply below the whole
of the quoted text. Also remove any irrelevant text.
Please provide URLs to articles wherever possible. Avoid
cutting and pasting whole articles especially
considering the fact that all may not be interested.
Pasting whole articles may also amount to copyright
violations, which is not something that this list
encourages.
Read the above mentioned pdf file on mailing list
guidelines by Shakthi Kannan :
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf.
The illustrative document should clear all doubts.
¹ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Proper_posting_style
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Todd
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