On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Prasanna Santhanam <prasanna.santha...@citrix.com> wrote: > That is some good guidance on netiquette even though its almost 15 years > since it was written: > > > Perhaps it is my oversight but I've read the RFC before and I didn't come > across any section that talked about bottom-posting as a general guidance. > (Please point me to the right section if I did miss it)
Sorry that was not my intent. This was more a general response, to use what already exists instead of reinventing out rules here. It does however recommend proper snipping/trimming to indicate what part of discussion one is responding to, which is something you have demonstrated in your response. And it is a good practice IMO. > > But when strictly adhered to I feel bottom-posting also bloats up email (its > the same content above or below) and conversations become illegible. > > I guess from this confluence of two cultures (b-posters and t-posters) I > would vote for inline, legible, clear to read communication over strict top > posting/bottom posting. This is exactly my preference and it does lead to much clearer email communications. It is widely used here at Apache. > --Prasanna > > > ------Original Message------ > From: Alex Karasulu > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > ReplyTo: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: E-Mail client guidelines on the mailing list > Sent: 8 May 2012 19:18 > > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Robert Schweikert <rjsch...@suse.com> wrote: >> >> >> 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 > > [SNIP] > > There's a nice IETF RFC on this: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 > > There's also this really nice essay I always like to read from Eric Raymond. > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > I'm not suggesting anyone is doing anything wrong here and nor is > anyone here of inferior intellect: it's just the title Eric chose the > essay :-). Sometimes I re-read this essay and realize that I can > always improve and often slide on my netiquette. > > Alex's Thought Exercise > ------------------------------- > > Everyone knows the concept of the devil. Whether you believe it or not > does not matter however presume you were given the job of being the > head master of making sure that all man kind failed to reach it's > potential. Now how best could you sabotage humanity with the least > effort? > > ------------------------------- > > We spend a lot of time communicating, and flaws in communication (I've > seen it here) can either lead to the best of friends or the worst of > enemies. Comm is the basis of both communication and community. When > communication > > ------Original Message Truncated------ -- Best Regards, -- Alex
