On 02/20/16 23:20, Tim wrote: > It's about time someone posted something like this, yet I can't ever > recall seeing FAQs sent to this list, it may as well be me: > > It is much preferred that participants to mailing lists write, and > reply, to messages in the manner the majority prefers, and the manner > that the list instructions told you to use in the first place. You're > expecting help from others, it's polite to make the effort to fit in. > You will probably not get as much help, perhaps from those who have the > most useful answers, if you don't. > > When replying, write your responses underneath what you're replying to. > So that *whoever* next reads the message, can read the whole thing in > order, from top to bottom, in a clear and coherent manner. Either write > your responses directly under the specific bits of the message that > you're responding to (interspersed posting). Or, entirely below the > prior message (bottom posting), though this makes it harder for people > work out what your responses are related to. i.e. To make it easier to > follow a message, make it read like a conversation. > > And edit out any extraneous stuff from prior messages that doesn't need > to be quoted. It's a waste, and makes reading the message more > cumbersome. It does not matter where your mail program leaves the > cursor when you hit reply, use your fingers to change it's position, and > cut and erase unneeded text as you go along. > > HTML messages are not preferred. They cause problems, and waste far > more bandwidth and storage space than simpler text-only message. > > For more information, look at the links provided (below) from the > mailing list, itself: > .. +1 -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
