On Thursday 29 December 2005 15:17, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 14:46 -0500, Robert Tate wrote: > > The problem with bottom posting is that a lot (most) people don't pay > > any attention to the 4th line of you link you point to below. We have > > to scroll through page after page of old postings to get the new > > information. I'm quoting that line below (the bold is mine): > > Right ... but here is the deal. MOST people who use mailing lists (and > not just e-mail with MS Outlook :) want to read from the top of the page > to the bottom (like a book). > > > "In addition to bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non- > > relevant parts of the message with regard to the reply, and to put the > > reply directly beneath the quoted relevant parts." > > When post in the relevant places, you don't have to move to the top and > the bottom of the e-mail to see the other things that post pertains > too ... the entire message flows from top to bottom. (Exactly the way > you would expect any document too) > > ALSO IMPORTANT ... don't post to the mailing list with HTML enabled in > the posts ... this screws up the web enabled archives .... and causes > people who read their e-mail as text (orc_orc comes to mind :) to not be > able to read the mail at all. > > It is not very hard to add the list address as a contact, and send mail > to that contact as "Text Only". It does take away the ability to have > Bold characters ... BUT it is also good manners. > > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > > Please be considerate to others :) I so far haven't found a way to get KMail (I'm NOT using Outlook!) to post in text mode only for this (and other lists). On my old system, RH7.2, I had it set, but this CentOS system is still new and I can't find a way to set it. Also, the address book dosn't have a place to set Text only entry for contacts. Also, I tried to start a new thread for this when I first replyed, but couldn't find a way.