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 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng