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Please stop top posting

Alex // nytpu <alex (a) nytpu.com>

Hi all,

I've noticed that some people top-post, and when it's only once in a
while it's tolerable, but when I wake up and my email digests total up
to 100KiB because half of the emails are copying and pasting all the
previous emails in the entire chain, it gets very arduous to read.

A polite request/reminder asking for people to bottom post.
Being able to quote whoever you're addressing makes it easier to write
your responses too, so bottom posting makes it easier for both the
author and the readers.

~nytpu

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Leo <list (a) gkbrk.com>

On a similar note on email etiquette; I'd also like to either get the 
mailing list switched
to plain text only, or for everyone participating to configure their 
email clients properly.

There are lots of guides online to do either of those, and it will 
massively clean up the
discussions here.

-- Leo

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roy niang <roy (a) royniang.com>

> There are lots of guides online to do either of those, and it will 
> massively clean up the
> discussions here.

BTW, your lines are strangely wrapped.

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Emery <ehmry (a) posteo.net>

On Donnerstag, 26. November 2020 17:43:43 CET, roy niang wrote:
>> There are lots of guides online to do either of those, and it will 
>> massively clean up the
>> discussions here.
>
> BTW, your lines are strangely wrapped.
>
>

What's a bottom post?

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roy niang <roy (a) royniang.com>

> What's a bottom post?

Here are some posting conventions: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting

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Leo <list (a) gkbrk.com>

> BTW, your lines are strangely wrapped.

Whelp, this is what I get for switching to Thunderbird occasionally. I
think for some reason the editor component of Thunderbird does not
represent what is going to be sent even when my emails are set to Plain
Text.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

-- Leo

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Ben Goldberg <ben (a) benaaron.dev>

> There are lots of guides online to do either of those, and it will 
> massively clean up the
> discussions here.

For anyone who needs help with this: https://useplaintext.email/

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