Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

[Scott Robbins]

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:10 PM, 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.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 08:39:00PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I suggest you read and take note of the Guidelines document at
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

This is another link I frequently give people who are unfamiliar with
typical tech list posting style.

howto-pages.org/posting_style/

It is worth mentioning though, that one should try to not be overly
aggressive when trimming, because, as the OP did state, sometimes,
important information can be missed. 

It's usually a judgement call, and over trimming can be as bad as not
trimming enough, but...



-- 
Scott Robbins
PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6