Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 2011-09-08, Tanstaafl wrote:

> What the heck was that???
>
> (top-posted because there is no way to make sense of the quoted text)

I... guess it was some serious Thunderbird misconfiguration? Or maybe
it's written in Quenya...

(replied exactly below the question it's supposed to address, just like
interleaved style should be used) 

> On 2011-09-07 9:53 PM, Keith Bates <keith@new-life.org.au> wrote:
> > On 08/09/11 11:29, Don Myers wrote:Reply
> >       below:On 09/07/2011 08:02 PM, NoOp wrote:For those that continue to insist on top
> >         posting on the LO lists: pleaseconsider bottom posting with interspersed replies.Hi 
> > All,I will respect your wishes about posting at the bottom. I live in
> >       the US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a lot of
> >       work e-mails. I never receive any e-mails where people reply to me
> >       at the bottom. The reply is always at the top. I never understood
> >       why Thunderbird had the default to reply at the bottom when
> >       Thunderbird came out. It was backwards!!!!!! So I have always
> >       changed the default on every system I've installed it on. Maybe
> >       there are different customs in different countries.DonIt's not a point about national 
> > customs. It's about the way we read
> >     mailing lists.If you are in a one-to-one conversation then you will know the
> >     context of the conversation and more importantly you will remember
> >     what you said to that person last time.In that case top posting
> >     works often,although you may still have to re-quote parts of the
> >     previous conversation to make it clear what is being talked about or
> >     the points you are responding to.In a mailing list where there are multiple conversations 
> > frommultiple people all happening simultaneously, it is a lot easier for
> >     all concerned if replies are interspersed in the body of the
> >     previous email or at the bottom so that new readers can pick up the
> >     context of the conversation. Also for people who come across the
> >     archived version looking to solve a problem several months later, it
> >     is much easier if you can follow the logical flow by scrolling down
> >     through the various discussions.We've had this discussion multiple times on this and 
> > previously on
> >     the OO list.I'm with NoOp on this but I know that there are people who insist on
> >     their right to top post.-- 

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