El 25/08/17 a les 01:14, Steve Litt ha escrit: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:35:13 +0200 > Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Hi Edward, >> >> Can you please quote the relevant parts of the mail you are replying >> to, especially the name of the person who sent that mail. Please ;) > > Yes! And I wish everybody would do what Svante says. And it's not just > Edward, by any means. > > To take it a step further, for gosh sakes, write for clarity. Quote > what's relevant to your reply, including what person said it, and > delete all quoted material not relevant to your reply. If you're > interleave posting, please please PLEASE delete all quoted text below > your final response so readers don't waste time looking for yet another > of your responses. > > Interleave posting can increase clarity and reduce the need for you to > be microscopically explicit. Use it! If you simply must print one > massive reply at the very bottom, please be sure to be explicit about > what each and every one of your points refers to, and please delete > all quoted text not related to your reply. > > And for those of you who insist on top-posting, which breaks long > many-poster sequences of very clear interleave posting, please at least > have the decency not to use words like "it", "them", "him", but instead > write out the whole concept, as in "the /etc/runit directory", "the > services started by runit", or "Peter Johnson", respectively. Who > wants to parse the entire bottom of an email trying to find out what > someone meant by "it", "them" or "him"? And please remember, top-posting > does not excuse you from deleting irrelevant quoted text while leaving > relevant quoted text in place. > > Top-posting with no quoted text deletion is outstanding for business > transactions intended to be a contemporaneous log of what happened > (CYA, in other words). But it's a discussion-muddling obfuscation in a > multi-person brainstorming session, which is what we're supposed to > have on technical mailing lists. > > Thanks, > > SteveT
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