[xubuntu-users] OT: Debophan you were talking about James

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
Thu Jun 19 16:23:00 UTC 2014


On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 18:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 10:56 -0500, c. marlow wrote:
> > bahhh... I wished everyone would follow the bottom posting rule... I
> > have to constantly copy replies to the bottom! lol sorry ill get off
> > my soap box
> 
> Proper inline-posting and proper bottom-posting requires also proper
> quoting and removing unneeded quotes, btw. in plain text only, by only
> asking smart questions. People who are interested to join other Linux
> mailing lists should be aware that asking dumb questions instead of
> doing a quick Internet research by oneself, to send HTML formatted
> mails, to top-post or sent useless quotes and/or bad formatted quotes
> easily could lead to be banned from the list. I prefer lists where OT
> talk is allowed, such as this one, but even this is unwanted on several
> mailing lists.
> 
> Anyway, all that "bad" behavior is allowed on official *buntu mailing
> lists, but to get effective help and to help others effectively, it's
> better to care about those rules.

PS: Please folks, also avoid endless lines, add line breaks after around
72 signs, only use longer lines, if you post code/scripts/commands.






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