Re: [Staffslug] Unsubscribing, and answering questions [was Re: (no subject) ]

On 04/01/07, stuart bell <sailing1(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >Kev, > Do my posts follow etiquette? I usually snip all unnecessary bits so > they're not too long but put me straight on all this please. > Stuart > Registered Linux Mangler #001 > Looks good to me, Stuart. Andrew is just doing it on purpose :-))) he likes to wind us all up... There are two schools of thought regarding replying to a message thread on a mailing list. One is that normally you read the question first then expect to read the answer(s). That's normal as it's how we speak to each other, unless we happen to be telepathic. The other way is that people want to see the answer first....yeah, right... I don't know how true it is but I have been told that the whole epidemic of top posting that is going on now is due to the way Outlook Express (Microsoft) automatically starts an reply at the top of the mail instead of below the received one. Not using OE I cannot verify this. I much prefer to answer below the original message. To me that is normal. -- ============================================== Don't take it to the tip recycle it via the Freecycle(r) Network. For a group near to you look here: Worldwide http://www.freecycle.org/ United Kingdom http://uk.freecycle.org/ ============================================ Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Staffordshire _______________________________________________ Staffslug mailing list Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug