[OT] Posting etiquette (was Problems with NRPE)

[Joe Rhett]

> However, this is a technical forum, filled with lengthy messages 
> containing lots of data, the understanding of which depends upon a 
> grasp of the context of the discussion - i.e., the relevant portions of 
> the previous messages in the thread - preferably without having to go 
> back and read all the old messages one by one.
 
Top-posting does not require this, as the previous messages are included
in the original reply.

> Sometimes it makes sense to say "Here's the summary of my problem. I've 
> appended config files, etc., to the end of this message." (A variant of 
> top-posting.) But more often than not, I personally find it easier to 
> follow a discussion if things are quoted in chronological order, first 
> to last, with new comments at the end. 

In detailed discussions, yes.  But I am sick and tired of paging down
paging down paging down past stuff I have already read a dozen times.

> Your post was neither a one-sentence reply, nor did you trim the 
> irrelevant parts of the message(s) you were quoting. Thus, your lengthy 
> reply made no sense (to me) until scrolling down to see what you were 
> replying to; and your overall post was 3 times as long as it needed to 
> be, due to the inclusion of irrelevant stuff.
 
I'll pay attention to your content-nazi approach when less than half of
the messages posted to this list stop including the signatures and
advertising of the previous writer.

-- 
Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.


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