Re: [opensuse] Re: Hi

On 22 Jan 2007, john.l.meyer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

If you want an alternative view, check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Charles philip Chan wrote:

I am not sure if it is saying any thing different:

,----[ Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting ]
| Partially because of Microsoft's influence, top-posting is more common
| on mailing lists and in personal e-mail. Top-posting is viewed as
| seriously destructive to mailing-list digests, where multiple levels of
| top-posting are difficult to skip. The worst case would be top-posting
| while including an entire digest as the original message.
|
| Some believe that "top-posting" is appropriate for interpersonal e-mail,
| but inline posting should always be applied to threaded discussions such
| as newsgroups. Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem
| to come from persons who first went online in the earlier days of
| Usenet, and in communities that date to Usenet's early days. Among the
| most vehement communities are those in the Usenet comp.lang hierarchy,
| especially comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. Etiquette is looser (as is
| almost everything) in the alt hierarchy. Newer online participants,
| especially those with limited experience of Usenet, tend to be less
| sensitive to arguments about posting style.
`----

Please especially take note of the digest part- some people do choose to
receive the postings as a digest.

The page also contains this section with some choice quotes from
RFC 1855[1]:

,----[ Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting ]
| In the words of RFC 1855, the RFC Netiquette Guidelines, which comprise
| a comprehensive set of voluntary netiquette conventions:
|
| If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
| summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
| enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure
| readers understand when they start to read your response.
|
| This section of the RFC is discussing public archived postings such as
| mailing lists and newsgroups. For interpersonal e-mail, the subject line
| is often sufficient to remind the sender of what was being discussed,
| and no quoting of any type is necessary to indicate a reply. However, if
| one is politely addressing points of a conversation, the points
| discussed should be explicitly stated or quoted inline. This is stated
| in the RFC regarding interpersonal communication such as email:
|
| When replying to a message, include enough original material to be
| understood but no more. It is extremely bad form to simply reply to
| a message by including all the previous message: edit out all the
| irrelevant material.
`----

Charles



Footnotes:
[1] Netiquette Guidelines, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html

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