[Slackdocs] Suggestion for Reply Order Structure in the List

[Rodrigo Amorim Ferreira]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 23:59 +0200, Eric Hameleers wrote:
> On 08/28/2012 11:37 PM, Rodrigo Amorim Ferreira wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > In a few emails in this discussion list I saw many different forms of
> > REPLY (or GROUP REPLY) that, I think, is disturbing the discussion. So,
> > I have a suggestion for everyone:
> >
> > Based on the e-mail reply structure of many client-based (or web) email
> > account, I think will be better for everyone only answer emails in the
> > top part of the body (and not in the bottom part). That way we can
> > maintain a decreasing time-based answer system in any email present in
> > each thread.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> > Rodrigo
> As a long-time USENET poster and user of mailing lists, I think sticking
> to the etiquette of _bottom_ posting works best.
> 
> First of all, it will make you realize that you have to scrub the
> mailing list message lines at the bottom of the email you are answering
> to...
> Second, it gives you a chronological information feed when scrolling
> through the email.
> Third, it will teach you to remove parts of the previous email that you
> are _not_ answering to, thereby keeping the total text as small as
> possible and as large as needed. Some of the emails in the mailing list
> archive are dragging hundreds of useless lines along.
> 
> Eric
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Hi Eric,

No problem :) I will follow this reply system too.