[GRLUG] Social norms

[Rich Nagel]

Completely agree with Ben here: please try to keep the posts clean(language 
too).

Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Eavey" <ben at eavey.com>
To: <grlug at grlug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [GRLUG] Social norms


>> Hackers consider that the best practice is actually to excerpt only
>> the relevant portions of the parent message, then intersperse the
>> poster's response in such a way that each section of response appears
>> directly after the excerpt it applies to. This reduces message bulk,
>> keeps thread content in a logical order, and facilitates reading.
>
> To me, this is the most important thing.  Keep the replies clean!  If
> replying, quote only the relevant parts of the conversation, and not the
> entire thing.  It makes for a lot of scrolling to find the meaningful
> bits, and in a long thread, that gets frustrating.  I'd rather see
> what's being replied to, and then the reply.  Quick, easy, and simple.
>
> Seems like there are several people who like to quote the *entire*
> thread above their reply, headers and all.  To me, that doesn't help
> with conversation flow.  It hinders things instead.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -Ben