Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:37:28 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Scott Gerhardt <scott@gerhardt-it.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <20011127232934.P17966-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> In-Reply-To: <KPEMLBLEMPMHGLJOCDEGOEFMDAAA.scott@gerhardt-it.com>
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > - Replies are posted at the _TOP_ of the message; saves scrolling when > following a long thread and keeps everything is reverse chronological order. Well, I actually disagree with this point. I do not like to put my replies *above* the original messages. Instead, I use to cut the piece of the original message to which I am replying to reasonable size and write my reply below it (just as I did right now). I find this scheme useful, since if there are multiple points in any given message to which I would like to say something, the whole thing looks more like a conversation (question 1 followed by answer 1, question 2 followed by answer 2, etc) and anybody not familiar with the original message still knows easily what exactly is going on. However, I would of course not require others to adopt to this scheme. There are many ways things can be done, and your suggestion, putting a reply on top of the original message, can work just as well. In my opinion, the biggest mistake that can actually be made is quoting a *long* message in full and then replying to it. When the text you added in your reply is shorter than the ammount of text you quoted, you most likely did something wrong... Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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