[OT] TOP-POSTING

Guillermo Garron guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Tue Jul 18 22:55:11 UTC 2006


On 7/18/06, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>
> It makes following a topic more difficult than it would have to be. If
> you reply to a list posting you nearly always want to contribute (ask,
> add, ...) to specific parts of the previous post(s). Doing that on top
> of the mail does not make clear to which part of the previous
> communication this belongs.
> This leads directly to the following aspect: top-posters typically do
> not strip what they quote. On a list like this it is not necessary to
> repeat the complete previous content by quoting all. Interested readers
> can thread the list, list archives organize their access to in a
> threaded way. TOFU (=top-posting + fully quoting) is thus annoying in 2
> ways: it makes it harder to see the discussion / argument threads and it
> wastes bandwidth + storage space.


You are right,
Sorry, i will keep in mind that!
regards,
Guillermo.


This isn't meant personally, trying to explain by giving arguments.
>
> The Fedora Wiki has a page with "rules" written down:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines
>
> Regards
>
> Alexander
>
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