Bahram wrote regarding '[SLE] RE: Has performance been forgotten?' on Wed, Oct 13 at 08:47:
other than your usual way! Can you please describe in details that what annoying problem was with my posts?
In the interest of helping you out (and because a few others could benefit from this): The biggest problems with your posts, I think, are top posting and breaking threads. Your grammar and spelling, while not perfect, are totally acceptable. :) First, top posting. The commonly accepted guideline is that, if you are going to include context from a previous message, you should include that context above your post. That way, someone reading your message from top to bottom will first see the historical context that you're referring to. That will refresh their memory as to what you are responding. After reading that, they get to your message, and they are ready to understand what you are posting. When you include the context at the bottom, it isn't read in order, and doesn't make sense. If the context is not important tnough to read first, it should just be left out of the message entirely, saving bandwidth. Similarly, only include the important context from previous messages. On a mailing list such as this one, where the messages are archived, I prefer to include enough context so that each individual message makes sense when read individually. That way, if someone searches on the web for something and finds a post, they can get most of the important information out of just one message, rather than having to read the whole thread. See how I only included the sentence that I'm replying to, rather than your whole message? The rest of the original message isn't required to make my response make sense, so I removed it. This bring me to my second point - breaking threads. When you reply, you sometimes combine responses to several messages into one message. This makes it impossible to follow conversations from beginning to end. You should only respond to one message at a time. In that way, people who come across the thread later, or who are interested at any time, can easily follow each individual discussion. These lists exist to help lots of people, and hopefully provide help to more people later on through the archives. Please take that into account when posting. More info can be found by searching google (or any www search engine) for "netiquette". This type of mailing list should follow netiquette guidelines for usenet, most of the time. --Danny