Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Marco Calistri <marco.calistri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
> > <http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette>
>
> 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!

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Marco Calistri <amdturion>
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