[HLUG] Email Formatting - a bit of a rant...

[george @hotmail.com]

bu isnt top posting sometimes a good idea,
so you/we dont have to read all the conversation again
as we've already read it?
specially if theyre on a little mobile phone thingy scanning thr emails?

[g]


> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:41:28 +0100
> From: markb at wetlettuce.com
> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Email Formatting - a bit of a rant...
> 
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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please excuse the top-posting and the long text below, it's serving as  
> > an example for my point.
> > 
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> > Also, can I please ask people not to top-post.  I don't want to be  
> > seen as a list-nazi[0], I just want to be able to read a conversation  
> > in the order that it is taking place.  This email that I am sending  
> > now is an excellent (and purposeful) example of why you shouldn't top  
> > post - by now no-one can see the original message that I am replying  
> > to and the meaning and context of this email is lost.
> 
> I wholeheartedly agree on this point, unfortunately most people have
> learnt these bad habits from business, especially as Outlook puts your
> cursor at the top of the e-mail which encourages this behaviour.
> 
> > Finally, can people please trim the email that they are replying to so  
> > that it only contains the relevant information to their point.  Again,  
> > I have not done this so that people can see how much of an issue it  
> > can be to receive a 200 line email.  If I'm trying to read my emails  
> > whilst on the move, an email this size can take up to 3 minutes to  
> > download over GPRS.
> > 
> > MAILADMINS: I'm happy to put forward a proposal for a mailing list  
> > "behavioral guideline" document if anyone thinks that it is necessary.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea, most other lists have guidelines to this
> effect.  Lets just not get to the point where the formatting of e-mail
> becomes the most important subject instead of our main purpose of
> helping people to use Linux. ;-)
> 
> One additional point I would like to add myself is that if you are
> starting a new topic, then create a new e-mail rather than replying to
> an old one and change the contents and subject.  Those of us with mail
> readers that honour the References header would most appreciate that,
> including me!
> 
> Cheers
> Mark
> 
> - --
> Mark Broadbent <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> 
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