On Mar 20, 2008, at 18:33, Rainer Müller wrote:
Mark Wilden wrote:
Let it be said, however, that not everyone agrees. When I've read all the other messages already, I don't like having to scroll.
So only quote the relevant part you are referring to - as I do here.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Very helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
We need an official document on mailing list etiquette on the MacPorts site. We currently only provide a link to an external document [1] but that document does not mention quoting. We need something like what the Subversion project has [2]. I am still strongly in favor of bottom-posting, or rather, interleaved posting. [1] http://www.macports.org/contact.php#Lists says "Members are expected to abide by the very simple Netiquette guidelines" and links to http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html [2] http://subversion.tigris.org/mailing-list-guidelines.html