> On 09/07/2022 10:58 AM EDT [email protected] wrote: > > > This is the beginning of what I see in a text only client -- didn't bother to > copy the whole thing...
I will be sticking to plain text then. Wasn't sure before, if formatted text has become acceptable here. > If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; Good idea. I was previously concerned about including more context for potential newcomer readers... But I guess one can always read previous messages in the thread -- that's what threads are for (to the tune of "..that's what friends are for") > avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma included at no I used to religiously quote and post at the bottom (avoid top posting). But then landed in a corporate environment where all of the (hundreds) of my coworkers had **absolutely no clue** about bottom posting, and had no notion of "top posting" and why that's a bad thing. Plus, our corporate mail client of choice (Outlook) has done everything possible to make quote/bottom posting a skull-numbing exercise. I will quote-post here. > charge.) If you change topics, change the Subject: line. > > Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal agreements > excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including writing in forums and mailing lists is *always* meant for others to read. > liberal use of whitespace and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations, > acronyms, and references. > > If someone else has already responded to a question, decide whether any > response you add will be helpful or not ... > > A picture is worth a thousand words -- divide by 10 for each minute of video The above tip itself is not coherently phrased. Attaching videos/stills is bad? Or preferred? Divide what by 10, exactly? Video play time? Either way - sounds like a contrived metric that's not always applicable... videos come in vastly varying quality and levels of informativeness. Also, there is a 40k limit on attachments in this mailing list (as I mentioned recently in another thread). This limit provides little to no opportunity to attach good resolution still images, let alone videos. _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
