Why I see certain messages from mailing list not ordered corectly by thread
David Boles
dgboles at comcast.net
Sat Jul 8 20:09:44 UTC 2006
Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> And while we are discussing etiquette, can I also request that
>>> people do not quote three screens-full, adding a single line? It's
>>> polite to remove the parts of the quote that are not necessary for
>>> understanding the reply.
>
> It seems that the MailinglistGuidelines[1] don't get read often
> enough. The referenced Top-posting Wikipedia entry[2] also covers
> quoting issues.
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines#head-a4e45d45241080ebaac69b38af4bc469ca2a57ef
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>
You expect people to read and follow list etiquette when they don't search the
archives before posting a question?? ;-) I have lost count of the recent
series of 'same problem - different thread' posts lately. The nfs-utils update
problem comes to mind as a recent example.
--
David
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