Hi, Jack Craig wrote: > PS: does the list still have a preference for top or bottom posting replies? Thanks for asking! Top posting is (still) strongly discouraged. The preference is to reply below the text to which you are replying, while avoiding quoting the entire message and replying at the bottom. The list guidelines, which are included in the footer of each message -- and were quoted twice in the message I'm replying to ;) -- state (in the "Proper posting style" section¹): Top posting is replying to a message on "top" of the quoted text of the previous correspondence. This is highly unwanted in mailing lists because it increases the size of the daily digests to be sent out & is highly confusing and incoherent. By default, most email clients use this (includes gmail & hotmail). Please, remove the irrelevant part of the previous communication(in case of more than a single correspondence) and use bottom, interleaved posting. Do not over-quote by the hierarchy level in the correspondence. Bottom, interleaved posting is replying to the relevant parts of the previous correspondence just below the block(s) of sentences. For a comment to another block of sentences of the same quoted text, you should move below that relevant block again. Do not reply below the whole of the quoted text. Also remove any irrelevant text. Please provide URLs to articles wherever possible. Avoid cutting and pasting whole articles especially considering the fact that all may not be interested. Pasting whole articles may also amount to copyright violations, which is not something that this list encourages. Read the above mentioned pdf file on mailing list guidelines by Shakthi Kannan : http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.pdf. The illustrative document should clear all doubts. ¹ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Proper_posting_style -- Todd
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