Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[David Bolt <bcrafhfr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:48:53 Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote:

> Hi, JB2.
>
> Please tell me, what do you mean about "top-post"? I don't understand.
> Please give me another vocab or even explanation.

Top-posting is where you post your reply above the text you're replying
to. This is a bad idea because it means that the reader has to scroll
up and down to get the context for your reply, and also the top-poster
generally doesn't snip out the bits that aren't being replied to.

Top-posting is a little worse than bottom posting, where the posted
does almost the exact same thing, except they scroll to the very bottom
of the mail and start typing their reply. As with the top-poster, they
generally don't bother to snip out any bits that they aren't replying
to.

The preferred method for the openSUSE lists, and many many others, is
to reply inline. This is done by snipping out the bits of text that you
aren't replying to, leaving just enough text to provide the context,
and then adding replying to each specific points straight after the
quoted text.

As for a fuller explanation, you can find one here:

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style>


Regards,
        David Bolt

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