From nobody Mon Nov 7 13:18:23 2022 X-Original-To: questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4N5WyM6ZsYz4gyLV for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:18:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4N5WyL58Gdz3Slv for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:18:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1667827115; x=1670419115; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:to:from:date:x-thread-info:subject:to:from:cc:reply-to; bh=AwotxvXf4SCJxQYT+UDgZti6Wi38P4zVQKqtrSIb3E8=; b=XFQbe51dczDYc46GhW26f31bjCKUxVPHBi3G+9LbQqWf7UFxnz1iGWE0sfX9mA3pZi2AMeCj3btR9xnXz0WIX9WoUgZh151Y1952yClNuCz0J4FOmNB5/NyEwJL3DhBQJBhO1F3s/E6Kw80bbmZVCUNtOSdIsix90Y+MEHU6oFQ= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRmNjAwMDBlNGVjYTMucXVlc3Rpb25zPWZyZWVic2Qub3Jn Received: from r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.190.2]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:18:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Mon, 7 Nov 2022 08:18:25 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.94.2 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1os219-0006Bp-Is for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:18:23 +0000 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 13:18:23 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posting Style Message-Id: <20221107131823.67c957cadb4bd11a4d00ba03@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20221106222404.ew2xhposne7aesvw@freebsd> References: <20221106222404.ew2xhposne7aesvw@freebsd> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4N5WyL58Gdz3Slv X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=XFQbe51d; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.70 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.998]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[questions@freebsd.org]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[142.0.190.2:received]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4f60000e4eca3.d7052cd622f520c59dbaa6b643633d73@email-od.com]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[email-od.com:dkim] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Sun, 6 Nov 2022 14:24:04 -0800 Joe B wrote: > What is recommended here on the mailing list? > > Bottom posting or topo posting? Neither! Although the long established style for USENET and mailing lists does reduce to bottom posting sometimes. > I know bottom posting it has the quoted replies at the top and the > person replying at the bottom Done properly the original message is trimmed to short sections each just long enough to give context and the relevant replies go beneath each section in and interleaved fashion. This approach makes the whole thing very conversational and easy to follow. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith