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[lojban-beginners] Top posting and quoting ...
>> ... it would help if you could learn and apply proper
>> email quoting etiquiette. Every time you top-post and
>> fail to trim context (which combination seems to be your
>> usual modus operandi) you push me closer to mentally
>> killfiling you as someone who can't be bothered to put
>> even minimal effort into producing readable email.
>
> I didn't realize that there was some problem with that.
No, clearly, because you basically just did it again.
Try reading these:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost
There is actually an RFC on this subject.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
I quote from section 2.1.1
- Be brief without being overly terse. When replying
to a message, include enough original material to be
understood but no more. It is extremely bad form to
simply reply to a message by including all the previous
message: edit out all the irrelevant material.
And from section 3.1.1
- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting
be sure you summarize the original at the top of the
message, or include just enough text of the original
to give a context ... do not include the entire original!
What you do is up to you. You can quote entire messages and top-post if you
like. Be aware that in communities where this is frowned upon, this makes
long-standing members think very poorly of you.
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