[139580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Apr 12 03:50:12 2011
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:50:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Michael DeMan <nanog@deman.com>
In-Reply-To: <023D7C80-512B-420D-BD9C-12F96E1FF752@deman.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Michael DeMan wrote:
> The ultimate question on email etiquette is naturally how to properly
> identify inline commentary.
It's not a problem.
Inline is done by trimming lines that are not needed and quoted text is
prefaced by a > sign. So if the email you're reading doesn't have a few
lines of > followed by text, the sender doesn't know how to properly
quote/trim and answer inline and most of the time their text is not worth
reading anyway.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
