diff --git a/Complaining.html.md b/Complaining.html.md index 8f74fe0..604eb34 100644 --- a/Complaining.html.md +++ b/Complaining.html.md @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ Complaiments My complainings on this website are linked on this page. -Top posting on mailing lists. — Coming soon +[Top posting on mailing lists.](http://mkaysi.github.com/top-posting.html) HTML on mailing lists. — Coming soon diff --git a/topposting.html b/topposting.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c7be14 --- /dev/null +++ b/topposting.html @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +

Top-posting

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What is top-posting?

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Top posting is replying before the text which you are replying to (and which is usually automatically quoted by your email client).

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This example from Debian wiki answers to both, this and next question.

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A: Because it messes up the way you read
+Q: Why is top-posting bad?
+A: Writing your answer before the question
+Q: What is top-posting?
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Why is it bad?

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See the answer to the previous question. It explains everything.

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Rules

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At least Debian mailing lists and Ubuntu mailing lists forbid top-posting in their guidelines. In my opinion other mailing lists should do this too.

diff --git a/topposting.html.md b/topposting.html.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86c142d --- /dev/null +++ b/topposting.html.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Top-posting +=========== + +What is top-posting? +-------------------- + +Top posting is replying before the text which you are replying to (and which is usually automatically quoted by your email client). + +This example from [Debian wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F) answers to both, this and next question. + + A: Because it messes up the way you read + Q: Why is top-posting bad? + A: Writing your answer before the question + Q: What is top-posting? + +Why is it bad? +-------------- + +See the answer to the previous question. It explains everything. + +Rules +----- + +At least [Debian mailing lists](http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct) and [Ubuntu mailing lists](http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists) forbid top-posting in their guidelines. In my opinion other mailing lists should do this too.