Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 16:05:40 UTC 2014


On 04/25/2014 03:52 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:10:17 -0400,
>   Mickey <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Gentleman!!! when replying to a email LEAVE the contents of the 
>> orignal poster intact so the next person that reads the email can 
>> read what the poster had to say.
>
> That is not the process for these lists. You are only supposed to keep 
> enough of the message you are replying to, to provide context for the 
> reply. This is normal for techincal mailing lists.


To be more specific to Bruno's reply, the keep it short section in our 
projects mailing list guidelines [1].

JBG

1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines#Keep_it_Short


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