[OSM-talk-be] mailing list good practice

[Glenn Plas]

On 2013-09-16 13:06, Marc Gemis wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Glenn Plas <glenn at byte-consult.be 
> <mailto:glenn at byte-consult.be>> wrote:
>
>     To be complete: top-posting (putting comments ABOVE the previous
>     messages) is usually really a big nono in the mailing list
>     fields.   You should put follow-up comments BELOW the original
>     mail.  Personally, It doesn't bother me too much, but on plenty of
>     mailing lists people go absolutely nuts over that fact , more true
>     on long email exchanges, as you need to read a long reply from
>     bottom to top in order to follow the conversation.   Of course
>     many clients let you sort using the subject field.
>
>
> Please inform Google about this, as with "Reply", it "hides" the 
> original message behind 3 dots at the bottom of the mail. :-/  :-)
>
It looks like you're doing fine on this message though :)

It's probably because when replying to 'regular' emails (since a mailing 
list isn't USENET) the consensus is to top-post.  I do this too with 
daily mail exchanges.

But it's good that you mention this fact, so we understand better where 
habits like this comes from.  I'm not a gmail user, although I have a 
gmail account, it's a spambox for me :)

Glenn
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