On 21/09/10 11:12, Patelkhana Mohan Rao wrote:
> Could you be a bit detailed.
> I want to know the formalities in this group.
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rik Tindall<[email protected]>
> To: Canterbury Linux Users Group<[email protected]>
> Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 9:17:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Hi All Its a nice experience with Rik on SFD day at
> South lib.
>
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:11:04 -0700 (PDT), Patelkhana Mohan Rao
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi Nick,
>> But some things I do not understood like bottom/top post.
>>      
> <snip>
>    
>> ________________________________
>> From: Nick Rout<[email protected]>
>> To: Canterbury Linux Users Group<[email protected]>
>> Sent: Mon, 20 September, 2010 7:51:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Hi All Its a nice experience with Rik on SFD
>> day at South lib.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Patelkhana Mohan Rao
>> <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> OK welcome to the community Mohan. Can I just mention a few things that
>> might assist you getting help and acceptance here.
>>
>> 1. Bottom post, not top post. This can be a controversial subject but is
>> summed up by by the following:
>>
>> A: because it disturbs the natural flow of conversation
>>
>> Q: why is top posting frowned on?
>>
>> It's not a universally accepted rule, but the more technical the mailing
>> list, the more often you are expected to bottom post. You won't run foul
>> of anyone by bottom posting, but you will by top posting.
>>      
> <snip>
>    
> This comment is an example of bottom posting, which I had never absorbed
> the formality about either until now. Sorry for that.
>
> Your response was an example top posting.
>    
Hi Mohan,

I wasn't clear enough.

You need to make your comments UNDERNEATH (at the bottom of) what the last 
person wrote.

(And remove superfluous quoting each time.) No worries.

Cheers, Rik


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