On 05/08/2012 04:16 AM, Ram Chinta wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:14 AM
To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: RE: E-Mail client guidelines on the mailing list
- No top-quoting, only bottom quoting or in-line
I agree with most of these guidelines. I can see most of them makes sense for
plain text reading in emails/archives and on phones. The only one I have a
problem with is bottom-quoting. With most email clients supporting threading
nowadays, it is faster for readers or followers of a thread to do top-quoting.
I
think if you have specific items that you're answering to then you should trim
and do in-line. This email, for example, to me is in-line with one item. If
you are
replying to an email as a whole, then you should simply top-quote. For the
people who are reading archives, it's not too much trouble to follow in reverse
but for people who are actively participating in a conversation, it saves a lot
of
time not to have to scroll down.
--Alex
Couldn't agree more. I would even question why plain text is so sacrosanct in
these days where mime/html email clients are standard. Archiving and searching
isn't an issue either.
Because HTML formatting messes with spaces when you sent patches to the
list. Also this is a devel list, thus I suspect there is a good chunk of
people using pine or mutt and plain text e-mails are just much nicer to
deal with in those clients.
Although it appears that the top posting (which I personally hate) is in
favor maybe this will help:
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette#Quoting
This is the guideline we have for all openSUSE mailing lists.
Later,
Robert
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