Hi Michael, On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:38:53PM -0700, Michael Linck wrote:
Jens, I appreciate your advice. Thank you for reminding me of the "rules." You have a valid point that I could have left a particular
thanks. Please note that I did not just addressed you but all people which ignore the mailinglist rules and quote in an obscure way. I hope these people profit from this mail as well.
Boost lists are for subscribers only. To subscribe you have nearly always to read http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm (links from http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm). Did you forget about all guidelines (which are bt obvious and also true for nearly all other lists and also newsgroups, forums, ...).
[Let's not drop this from the mail so that other find it more easily.]
Why should there only be one way to quote another's e-mail, much less to quote something from a website? I'm sorry if you didn't get the context
Indeed there may be some other possibilities. There are no very strict rules but I have seen top posting in this thread (and in others) for a too long time. The mail grew and was already very long. Nobody tried to truncate it ... Top posting e.g. just reverses the replies and is bad:
Fine
Will do
Please quote properly
... you got me. I was too lazy to delete it because I figured people would get what was going on there and stop reading anyway, so I wasn't really wasting anyone's time by not wasting my own.
I prefer to stop reading at the bottom of the mail so it would be nice to see only short emails on lists :-)
Since you like the standards, I'd like to point out one final thing:
"In addition to technical skills, Boost members value collaboration, acknowledgement of the help of others, and a certain level of politeness." -- http://www.boost.org/more/discussion_policy.htm
I think your use of profanity violates this rule, which I find pretty important.
Maybe. I will try my best to improve it. Jens