On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Marco Calistri
On Fri 25 Sep 2009 at 10:47:39 (-0300 UTC), phanisvara das wrote:
On Friday 25 September 2009 06:50:49 pm Dave Howorth wrote:
excerpt from the very beginning of the 'netiquette page':
----------------- Note: It is pointless to post an email that only warns about posting style.
New openSUSE email users will feel unwanted and go away, and that is exactly what we don't want. If you don't want to read an email, then just skip it. If you want to answer, but prefer the posting style described below, state that at the end and link to this article for explanation. -----------------
Oh my God! That's sounds like the teacher is learning from the student :-)
that being said, there are valid reasons to use top or interleaved posting generally; exceptions may apply.
IMO it's best to quote and post in a way that makes it easy to understand what's gong on, avoiding unnecessary clutter.
-- phani
Perfectly in agree with you Phani; it seems sometimes that "some "ancestral habits" are hard to die refusing new styles, independently if these were smarter,easier or not!
Significant mailing lists like the kernel lists prefer bottom posting because the emails are archived for extended periods and are treated as reference materials. It is much easier to read a six month old email that is properly quoted and bottom posted than to read a top posted one (which I rarely see trimmed). So top posting is great for simple back and forth disposable communication. It is not useful for communications that are treated as of archival value. I'm not sure where the opensuse mailing lists fit on that scale, but I suspect there is archival value, but if so why are they not made available through major list search sites like markmail.org. Even opensolaris is available there: http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aopensolaris But nothing for opensuse: http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aopensuse Note that markmail.org tracks about 7,000 mailing lists. It has become my favorite site to search mailing lists due to its power and relative ease of use. My conclusion the netiquette rules for a list need to take into account the general level of communication on the list and its long term value. I participate on the lkml lists and they are clearly meant for archival purposes. I also participate on our local lug, and they clearly do not worry about the archival value of the communication. The opensuse lists seem to straddle the two worlds which makes it difficult. Many of the developers would like to see them treated by all as more formal. Many users treat them as very casual. I suspect that is the major reason we have so much culture clash on the opensuse lists in general. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org