Re: [Puppet Users] Mailing list etiquette

R.I.Pienaar
2012-05-16T13:48:27Z

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trevor Vaughan" <tvaughan@onyxpoint.com>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2:42:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Mailing list etiquette
>
> I''m going to have to push back a bit at the no top posting with
the
> same reasoning as described here:
>
https://lopsa.org/content/top-posting-vs-bottom-posting-stop-tilting-windmills.
>
> Especially since most mobile mail clients top-post, it''s going to
be
> difficult to get this one to stick.
>
> I personally prefer it so that I don''t have to scroll past
hundreds
> of lines of:
>
> "You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google
> Groups "Puppet Users" group.
> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
> puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at
> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en."
>
> If you''re directly responding to something non-obvious, I do think
> that copying the relevant material up is nice but that you
shouldn''t
> lose the rest of the conversation for those poor folks who may be
> using Mutt as their primary mail reader (or some other non-threading
> reader).

I tend to agree top posting does sometimes make sense, my main pain point is
HTML mail which makes it hard to reply sanely for users who choose not to use
HTML mail clients or who choose to disable that feature.