-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Tremblay wrote:
Hey guys, there are always these post disparaging the newbies for top posting and not trimming. Personally, I think top posting is a good thing, with it i can just open a list item and read the latest response rather than scrolling down past the stuff I read the day before.
True, but that only works when the reply is just a few lines and not several replies to several items. Like this email, for example. Top posting is very bad practice, you just completely lose the discussion context. It's possibly easier for the person who writes the email (reply), but not for the reader. Point is, it only works properly when writers properly format (max. width) and remove parts of text from the OP that isn't relevant to their reply. Because if you don't, you end up with very, very long batches of text no one can read any more.
Any way I'm not asking to change the rules. I am asking if we can add to the confirmation e-mail a link to the rules. Is it possible to add the link to every message forwarded by the system like a header?
Won't help much as a header because no MUA will interpret it. One would have to explicitly look at the mail headers (something that isn't easy with every MUA btw.. erm.. Outlook... ok, not that relevant). And I guess that people who actually look at the headers also already know about the netiquette (that doesn't differ that much from the usual behaviour requested on other opensource project mailinglists).
...but I guess it wouldn't hurt.
I have also recently been asked to read this,http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html which was very helpful.
Yes, it is, mostly.
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See, better than top-posting, isn't it ? ;)
cheers
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