[Coco] Etiquette Question

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Mon Mar 19 07:59:53 EDT 2012


K. Pruitt wrote:
> What is the proper posting format for this mailing list? I see both top posting
> and bottom posting going on. I am in the habit of responding to email by top
> posting (since the recipient already knows what they wrote) and when posting on
> Usenet, etc., I bottom post (so that the reader can more easily follow the
> conversation). I'm not so sure what the proper etiquette is for posting to a
> mailing list which is email-based so I figured I'd just ask.
>
> Is there a majority preference here?
>

There is a convention that I would like to see used universally, send messages 
as text with fixed line widths. When this is done, reply messages will have 
correct formatting in the quoted text and not have everything on one line.



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