Friedrich Strohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 写于 2007-05-30 07:00:11: > btw. I join the voices that price the nice way people are discussing > even that (off-)topic on this list. Vimmers seem to be a special kind of > civilized people. :o)) >
I think I could got some idea now: A mailing list is a list, where everyone could see all posts. So it is a good practise for trim, because those who want to see the original could go to the original message to check. That said, bottom-post messages has to be trimmed to retain a good view, so one often need to close the current message and find the orignal message in order to see what the thread is about. This is okay for a mailling list since everyone could see all posts, and bottom-post saves band-width. Office e-mail is very different: consider the e-mail may be replied several times and the fourth person decides to forward the e-mail to executive, he should include everything in it since the executive had not received the original message at all. This is the rule inside my company: e-mail should NEVER be trimmed unless we have a very good reason to omit or hide the trimmed part, interlined reply is not recommended in my office. So the quoted message might be very long, and top-posting is best for this case. Please do not blame Microsoft about the default-top-posting, Microsoft design software for money and for commercial use, the commercial may think top-posting easier to read and band-width is usually not a concern inside a company intranet. Okay, now I think its time to let new vim@vim.org subscribers know that bottom posting is prefered on Vim Mailing List. Will every new subscribers receive an e-mail when subscribe to vim list? is it possible to indicate the bottom-posting preference inside the welcoming e-mail? -- Sincerely, Pan, Shi Zhu. ext: 2606
