Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 120, Issue 37

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, SoundsFromSound
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I apologize, my brain is a bit tired - it's almost 4am here :)  I think I
>> typed the word forum because it was fresh on my mind since I visit the
>> Nabble "forum" archive for the mailing list.  Sorry for the confusion.  I
>> should rest my brain for the night now, hehe...talk to you all soon.
>
> One more remark concerning mailing list etiquette: it is considered
> good practice to quote the text you reply to *above* your message.
> Quoting previous messages below yours (called 'top-posting') is
> discouraged because it results in messy emails.

Well, the "messiness" is just because everybody else does it the other
way round here.  And this order has the advantage that topic/response
corresponds to natural reading order: top to bottom.  As long as one
cuts the topic down to the actual relevant parts necessary for putting
the response into context, this is the best way to do things.

Now if I am conversing with a _service_ department where I get a
different correspondent every time, and that correspondent does not
necessarily have the full conversation and context available easily,
there is some sense in quoting the _whole_ unabridged conversation so
far, and _then_ putting it at the bottom makes sense since the poor
person will have stopped reading long before he has a chance to see what
this is about.

But for mailing lists, just quoting the relevant parts in context and
replying directly below makes more sense.

Gnus, the Emacs built-in news/mail reader has the WYf key combination
that, among some other things, reorders quote-below material into
reading order.  So it is not a really rare occurence...

-- 
David Kastrup