I agree that the maintainers ought to weigh in. If they do, then people should abide by that, if they don't, then it's probably going to be a free-for-all.

RP

P.S. I vote for the sandwiches. I'll take a hot pastrami sub. =)

houghi wrote:

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:24:12AM +0200, Andre Truter wrote:

On 8/12/05, houghi <houghi@houghi.org> wrote:

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Would it be wise to recommend bottom posting?

The best is actually selective posting, where you cut out the stuff
that you are not replying to and reply directly below the paragraph
you are responding to.


Oh yes, please. And it works like this, BTW.

<snip>
 Good explanation on how and why is give in one of the URL's. It is made
for Usenet, but applies just as well as to mailinglists (or even personal
email)

English : http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
German : http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren/
Dutch : http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/

I am however not the maintainer here and I have no say in this matter. I
would like to hear what the maintainers think about this.

Including some rules in a group that is already as busy as it is now and
explaining them in the welcome message would be a good idea.

houghi