From f40c6d0dd1a87eebe050a3b43aa9f910d3ca77e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikaela Suomalainen Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:23:08 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] articles/complaining/topposting: +1 example from Lubuntu mailing list. --- articles/complaining/topposting.html | 22 +++++++--------------- articles/complaining/topposting.html.md | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/articles/complaining/topposting.html b/articles/complaining/topposting.html index 9c7be14..f67e4de 100644 --- a/articles/complaining/topposting.html +++ b/articles/complaining/topposting.html @@ -1,21 +1,13 @@ -

Top-posting

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What is top-posting?

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Top-posting

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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).

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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

- +Q: What is top-posting? +

Why is it bad?

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See the answer to the previous question.

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It also makes harder to know what previous poster meant if he/she just said "+1" and other people have used different posting style and senders and replies are messed up. This happens often on Lubuntu mailing lists.

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Rules

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/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md b/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md index 86c142d..e4991ba 100644 --- a/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md +++ b/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ This example from [Debian wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_ Why is it bad? -------------- -See the answer to the previous question. It explains everything. +See the answer to the previous question. + +It also makes harder to know what previous poster meant if he/she just said "+1" and other people have used different posting style and senders and replies are messed up. This happens often on Lubuntu mailing lists. Rules -----