Re: guidelines to post on debian-user --- draft 1
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I just read the guidelines at
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html
and have one question. I understand the general concept of inline posting,
which is what you are advocating in this document, (not to be confused with
bottom-posting, quoting the entire message and posting at the bottom, as I
understand it). But is it OK to simply reply to a message if your reply states
the context clearly enough without quoting? My mail reader is threaded, and
keeps everything in conversation form, so as I am reading messages, I would
rather not look at the same stuff I have seen 15 times already. In addressing
multiple points one-by-one, this could be useful, but I see a lot of messages
either completely bottom-posted because the user just knows "Don't top-post" or
messages that have quotes nested 4 or even 5 levels deep. As long as the thread
remains unbroken, this should be unnecessary, since those of us with threaded
mail readers have already seen the top-most message 4 or 5 times. I would
suggest that something be added concerning multilevel quoting. And I hope no
one minds that I haven't quoted anything at all in this post since I have
hopefully made my point contextual enough to stand on its own. Let me know if
not. ;-)
Lorenzo
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