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What can make list friendly? - posting style with interleaved answers - or bottom posting
The point of bottom posting is so people can read the mail and then the reply. If you snip the mail out, then people just have to go to the archives to get the context (say they joined the list mid conversation). Once you remove the advantage of bottom posting (reading the whole conversation in order), you may as well revert to top posting for its advantage - not having to scroll to the end of stuff you've read and re-read 1,000 times already in order to read the new post (which is probably a 1 line quip!) Then, the mail can get large with all the previous guff and no one cares. a 100k mail is huge, and the largest mail I've seen on the list this year is around 217k. (only 4 bigger than 100k). Even the poor users on dialup won't have to spend too long downloading that, and the list server wouldn't need to give a crap really, even if it had to post it out to 1,000 users, the time and data usage would be minimal in the grand scheme of things - and remember, a 200k mail is not common. I advocate top posting, since we removed the benefit of bottom posting by cutting all the crap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org