[Mageia-marketing] A request

John john at neodoc.biz
Tue Mar 20 08:04:45 CET 2012


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:58:47 +1100
Patricia Fraser wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Could I ask everyone please: don't top-post replies to the list? 
> 
> As of today, I won't be doing it any more; I've always hated it, and
> I'm done putting up with it; I'll be trimming your replies to me
> ruthlessly and answering inline, and I'll explain why I'd like all of
> the marcom team to follow suit.
> 
> What's wrong with top-posting?
> 
>  * It makes messages difficult to read when the answer comes before the
>    question - this is important not only to the original poster and
>    the responder, but to everyone else on the list. Not all of us are
>    native English speakers; we have to be clear and keep the extra
>    waffle to a minimum.
> 
>  * It means the top-poster is less likely to trim (this does matter.
>    There are still many people around the world stuck on dialup with
>    very low data quotas), and subsequent top-posters are then also less
>    likely to trim;
> 
>  * It's going to be seen as rude on plenty of mailing lists, which is
>    absolutely not how we want people to see Mageia's marketing reps.
> 
> Please post your replies in-line, underneath the point you're
> replying to, and trim any parts of the original message(s) that you
> aren't replying to.

And please, to improve readability _do_ leave an empty line between your
contribution and any preceding or following segment, it makes it so much
easier to pick out new parts in inline postings.

John NZ


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