Proper ettiquette for posting messages
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Fri Jan 2 20:17:02 UTC 2004
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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