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Re: How to get all contribs from a specific person?

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2012a_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 17:15:47 -0600

On Jan 8, 2012, at 14:31, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>> Top-posting is appropriate for short responses that address the entirety of the replied message.
>
> Where does it say that? I'm looking at the guidelines at
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.4.x/www/mailing-list-guidelines.html,
> which include no such caveat.

From that very page:

> There are even situations where top-posting is preferable — for example, when the response is short and general, and applies to the entirety of a long passage of quoted text. So top-posting is always a judgement call, and in any case it's not a major inconvenience even when done inappropriately.

The current published URL for that by the way is

http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/mailing-lists.html#top-posting
Received on 2012-01-09 00:16:30 CET

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