X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1381872040.2042.17.camel@AMD64X2.fritz.box> Subject: Re: [geda-user] Cheap solder paste source? From: Stefan Salewski To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:20:40 +0200 In-Reply-To: <201310151654.r9FGs9Je027157@envy.delorie.com> References: <20131015083032 DOT GA24084 AT visitor2 DOT iram DOT es> <201310151654 DOT r9FGs9Je027157 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2013-10-15 at 12:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > What do you mean by top-post? > > Some people feel that everyone should reply to emails with the same > format, usually their format, for "readability". Ideally, you would > trim out as much of the mail you're replying to, leaving only the bit > you're addressing, and address each point in sequence following each > point (like I'm doing). Hello DJ, personally I would like to see something like the first line in this postings for your replies -- that would make it easier for me to follow the discussion when I had missed something. That may be not needed when you answer to simple questions, you may argue that is makes no difference who asked the question. But I have seen answers from you in the past to long complicated discussions, and I was totally lost. The top posting with fullquote is very common in these days on many mailing lists, often together with a duplicate of the text in HTML. And more and more people even ask questions without giving her real names, writing all in lover case and with lots of typing errors, even when they write in their native language. I even got personally emails with questions in this style! Really strange. Best regards, Stefan