[Nottingham] Mailing list etiquette

[Graeme Fowler]

Hello all

As you're probably all aware, we've had a bit of a discussion regarding 
top-posting today. I couldn't help noticing one or two other bits of 
impoliteness creeping in (in terms of etiquette) and felt compelled to 
mention them:

1. Try not to top-post (done to death).

2. Try not to excessively over-quote.

3. Don't change subject when replying to a thread. If you want to start 
a new thread, start a new thread - my threading reader has gone bonkers 
today, as the "digest" thread has actually turned into "Sig snip offs", 
"Geekiness", "Top posting laziness", "Ubuntu mail", "Broadband Speeds" 
and "Braodband and Linksys routers". All at the same time. Talk about 
subject forking :)

As an aside, an ex colleague of mine once mentioned that my 
(traditional "quote the bits you need and put relevant comments after 
each bit") method of replying to messages was unintelligible as they 
kept having to read what they had just written. It was a point, I 
suppose, but the goodness of it was debatable!

Nighty night

Graeme