On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 10:55 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > You would be more helpful if you explained the very limited cases > where top posting is appropriate, as well as telling them they what > they did was not appropriate. From time to time... Though that turns what was going to be a shortish "don't top post" message into a long saga, particularly when someone debates it. I did post a link to the Fedora website [1], on the first two occasions I asked them not to top post, which does explain what people are supposed to do on here, and that links [2] to the whys and wherefors. I could live with top posting, barely, *if* people snipped out the crap they quote with it. But they don't. I can't remember seeing any top poster do that. And it's bloody painful trying to figure out what they're responding to. Same goes for those who bottom post and don't snip. There's been quite a bit of both recently, made all the more worse by all that crap being quoted for a one or two line reply. 1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines#head-21931671219f9e2ecd6ec8655a3d582326699379 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
