[Samba] sernet documentation

Reindl Harald
Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:46:50 -0000

Am 27.08.2015 um 16:42 schrieb Sébastien Le Ray:
> Le 27/08/2015 16:36, Reindl Harald a écrit :
>>
>> Am 27.08.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Mark Foley:
>>> (btw - I know this is probably a function of your mail client, but
is
>>> there any
>>> way you can post your replies at the top instead of the bottom of
the
>>> message?
>>> Sometimes it a long way to scroll down!)
>>
>> NO top-posting is *not* welcome on mailing lists, it's just the
point
>> to strip not for the reply relevant quotes and in case of a sane
>> thread you destroy the flow by throw a top-posting in the middle
>
> This was relevant in 1995 when no MUA had thread handling…
> I'd rather receiving top posted replies than having to scroll billions
> of uneeded lines for a one-line reply

irrelevant what *you* want to receive, the other thousands of RCPT's are
what counts!

https://www.samba.org/samba/ml-etiquette.html

the whole point is, and then you don't need to scroll nor top-post:

If you include the original message in your reply, trim it so that only
the relevant lines, enough to establish context, are included. Chances
are (since this is a mailing list) we've already read the original message.

and P.S: no need for reply-all!

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