Bruce: > I apologize. I was just trying to make it faster for those > following the thread and still understandable for those who > hadn't been following before but were interested now. That's what interspersed posting is for (as per this post). You only include what's needed, reply directly below the parts you're responding to, keeping the whole thing short. If someone needs to see more, they've got the prior mail to go back and have a look at. > By the way, I searched for the guidelines at the Fedora-List > Info Page today and couldn't find them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate The "Mailing Lists" section leads to: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines The "If You Are Replying to a Message.." section Bottom posting is another way, where you reply completely below the prior post, without interspersing comments. Though this can make it harder to figure out what's in response to what, especially with some people who don't communicate very well. Either way, trim out the stuff that really isn't needed (i.e. three generations of messages aren't usually needed, and you usually don't need the whole of the prior post). Top posting doesn't help. If we have to refer back to what you're replying to, we've got to scroll up and down, reading backwards. Crappy full-quote bottom posting doesn't help, just as badly. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
