----- Original Message ---- From: Rik Tindall <[email protected]> To: Canterbury Linux Users Group <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 21 September, 2010 12:21:17 PM Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Hi All Its a nice experience with Rik on SFD day at South lib.
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 Hi Rik, Is it in line? Regards Mohan _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
