On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:

> On 1/24/10, ZelluX <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I see.
> >
> > By the way, I'm new to mailing list, do you mean I should reply at
> > the bottom of the post like this? And reply posts by "Reply All"
> > button in gmail?
>
> Yup :) People here love bottom posting, due to one obvious reason:
> easier to track the conversation ...  it is more comfortable to
> track down conversation by reading it from top to bottom, right? :)

  the other unwritten rule is to savagely prune whatever part of the
post you're *not* replying to.  if you're only responding to a single
point someone has made, there's no need to include the *entire*
original post if most of it contributes nothing to the subsequent
discussion.

rday
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