snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 19:55:24 UTC 2009


2009/9/13 Peter l Jakobi <lists at kefk.oa.shuttle.de>:
> 2.   Wasting  someones  time  with  excess  quoting  and  flaming   in
> mailinglists is a good way to ensure that he'll loose his enthusiasm.

Flaming is bad, but I for one don't have too much of a problem with
excess quoting. It doesn't take _that_ much time to read as I
generally skim-read anyway. I question how much time is "lost" with
/excessive/ quoting.

I have a bigger problem with people making initial posts full or
unnecessary verbiage and no concrete information.

> 3.  One of the reasons that many lists have netiquettes and have added
> top-posting to the list of things to avoid.

Again, I'm not too fussed - I work in a Microsoft Environment where
most people do this - I respect the etiquette guidelines of the list
on this, but I don't usually castigate people for it.

--
Sam




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