Gregory Pittman wrote: > frank gaude' wrote: > >> All this is good, but I for one think more tolerance for variety is >> in order. Diversity is the order of the day, especially when it comes >> to developing free software. The fewer rules the better. > > The biggest problem with "rules" is that they are certain to be > broken, mostly unintentionally.
Yes. > Top-posting can work, but it's certainly rude to top-post a response > in summation of a long, complicated post. One's first reaction is > "huh?", after which you have to figure out what part(s) the person was > responding to, if you feel up to taking the time. Bottom-posting can > be bad for the same reason -- the highest intelligibility comes from > sticking your responses just below the individual parts that they > respond to, while deleting the unnecessary and distracting parts. Hmmm... > It would seem that where excessive quoting is especially annoying is > in longer threads, where many serial posts accumulate in a big blob -- > a snowball effect. Yes. > If we do see some rules (ugh!) or recommendations (ah, better) > develop, perhaps a subrecommendation might be the request to try not > to reply to an email if your only goal is to remind the poster of the > style recommendations. > Yes, Greg, a fine sense of humor always gets us to our goal. <smile> Frank
