El 25/08/17 a les 01:14, Steve Litt ha escrit:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:35:13 +0200
> Svante Signell <svante.signell@???> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Edward,
>>
>> Can you please quote the relevant parts of the mail you are replying
>> to, especially the name of the person who sent that mail. Please ;)
>
> Yes! And I wish everybody would do what Svante says. And it's not just
> Edward, by any means.
>
> To take it a step further, for gosh sakes, write for clarity. Quote
> what's relevant to your reply, including what person said it, and
> delete all quoted material not relevant to your reply. If you're
> interleave posting, please please PLEASE delete all quoted text below
> your final response so readers don't waste time looking for yet another
> of your responses.
>
> Interleave posting can increase clarity and reduce the need for you to
> be microscopically explicit. Use it! If you simply must print one
> massive reply at the very bottom, please be sure to be explicit about
> what each and every one of your points refers to, and please delete
> all quoted text not related to your reply.
>
> And for those of you who insist on top-posting, which breaks long
> many-poster sequences of very clear interleave posting, please at least
> have the decency not to use words like "it", "them", "him", but instead
> write out the whole concept, as in "the /etc/runit directory", "the
> services started by runit", or "Peter Johnson", respectively. Who
> wants to parse the entire bottom of an email trying to find out what
> someone meant by "it", "them" or "him"? And please remember, top-posting
> does not excuse you from deleting irrelevant quoted text while leaving
> relevant quoted text in place.
>
> Top-posting with no quoted text deletion is outstanding for business
> transactions intended to be a contemporaneous log of what happened
> (CYA, in other words). But it's a discussion-muddling obfuscation in a
> multi-person brainstorming session, which is what we're supposed to
> have on technical mailing lists.
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT

Is this a new thread about the top/bottom posting in soviet union by
Volkswagen?