-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30.03.2012 20:28, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Camaleón<noela...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: >>> >>>> Could someone explain me, what are "top- and bottom posting" >>>> styles? >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style >> Though it's generally ideal to go with a conversational style, >> inserting new text within the quoted material for context. Top >> posting almost never meets this, bottom posting only works when >> the post you're responding to is very short. Like this. > > I'll echo this one. Particularly when a thread gets long (as when > trying to debug a problem). > > It gets very difficult to follow a thread when either: - there's no > context kept in a message (you have to go back and sort through > previous messages) - some people top post, some people bottom post, > some people interleave > > Really helps when there's a generally agreed upon convention for a > list, and when people quote selectively. > > Just one man's opinion, of course. > > Miles Fidelman > >
Thank you for providing explaining to bottom post. I have now configured Icedove and K9 Mail to do bottom posting instead of top posting. - -- Mika Suomalainen > gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys > 4DB53CFE82A46728 Key fingerprint = 24BC 1573 B8EE D666 D10A AA65 > 4DB5 3CFE 82A4 6728 >> NOTE: The old key (62FE66853913CB03) expires on 03.04.2012! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPde7XAAoJEE21PP6CpGcoMNoQAIjzQQVn4EPB7wnSSKhSETgF d0jTeUmtL0UfRWDuHODu7WXURJZ2kXUw8+qQEiTqx7YNDnVnTV3KoQ52lyemGttB KPite68xn8+oVHsNov7csfnPrFvFtpmrvlGthiufsXYkXFWeomHgm92CzM459Wtp UPqC+VW2iy/TWDnIcXSQXLURqjIsjDrZJ6SSdrBLwPVuBBPePAPPHlNz1eaNsD63 T8wr5lKP6iPC5vhvv1MssKjq4S8ags0m8q7vnoXP3jNRYZj/zIb3woFT4JMT4vxz SCU9wX4uQGelMTJG6QdyvODb9iXtuohNfNYSs13wdsl2lwRXPAM/uwVXy2zn2oIa AKcTmZCJq7FoDa/sAj/dKT2VUBtbdENUbkdTnkC4G0HJ/dB/6lHAJXxHxYafZ38s G0B1kWkA7FRDFEckdtUXJPWJ2KGdjz3+/otPBeqy3kOTdwvwttD6YqpZm6Nbkh8j Zug22JLVOBf+2bQRenILf2xYdnsGBwAzj2N2LiPEvNERGuxHfx+Kgtyd4rwVIawT 0Xh9qUT5ktF/sDX4dcqtY7rhpH1yXBSJx9AXpqUWSIspOHelIYISs0o9hsQGgN8k IouCoEoQ3ieV5vZR5AyfcjU19VVK5GJCBiLXw8KAjSGd6gYOVoa2hax+tbWOvqNh k8ecfhSSxoUStEUM+9m5 =a7dB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f75eeda.70...@hotmail.com
