Proper ettiquette for posting messages

[Rick Stevens]

Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 13:42 1/2/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> My first attempt at posting messages
>> (http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00008.html) 
>> gave
>> me what I wanted - a solution. But I do not appear to have the reply 
>> part of
>> this figured out, as the responses are not placed where I want them to 
>> go.
> 
> 
> This is a specific featuer to your mail client. LookOut and LookOut 
> Express will always place the cursor for reply above the quoted text 
> (top-posting), which is great for one-on-one conversations but murder 
> for mailing lists and newsgroups (one-to-many communication). There is 
> no way to change that, I think, just more work for you. Eudora is a lot 
> more flexible and respects the standards.
> 
>> Is there an ettiquette document? How should replies be formatted?
> 
> 
> All I can suggest off the top of my head is:
> 
> http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html
> 
> Doubtless there are others.

Try http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.thml

It was written for the redhat-install-list, but it's valid for this one,
too.
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