On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Josh Donovan <josh.dvan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts > > * Mailing List Etiquette > * How To Ask Questions The Smart Way > * Quoting Style > * Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting > > 1. Please turn off HTML in your e-mail client for these mailing lists. Yes, yes, yes. > 2. Please do not top post to the mailing list when replying to a post. > (See the Quoting Style link above, and use the Interleaved text method > , deleting non-applicable text as required. If you need to reply to a > message, and you do not need to post in interleaved mode, please bottom > post instead of top posting. > Since this _is_ a text-only mailing list and your post was text only, there is no link. (Oops!) You have to post the URL itself. > 3. Please trim the extra stuff in the email and leave enough to make > sense of the thread. > In particular, please trim off the extra stuff at the bottom of your posts to which you are NOT responding. A lot of people, even not-so-newbies, miss this and leave a lot of useless excess at the end. Note that if you actually BOTTOM-post, this does not happen.... Thanks, Josh. mhr