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Re: svn commit: r38218 - in trunk: . build/ac-macros

From: Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:16:44 -0500

On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Branko Cibej wrote:

> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>> (Also please don't top-post, because it's harder to answer.)
>>
>
> Do we actually have a policy about this? 'Cos sometimes it makes more
> sense to top-post, and sometimes I just go crazy mad when I have to
> skip
> past whole pages of quoted messages to read a couple of lines of
> response ... so ... dunno, but at least the avid bottom-posters can
> take
> a bit of time to trim down the quoted text, IMHO.

Actually, we do: http://subversion.tigris.org/mailing-lists.html#top-posting

It basically says "don't chide people for top-posting. It's sometimes
appropriate, but it's not a major inconvenience even when done
inappropriately."

-Hyrum

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