Mailing list etiquette

Some brief notes about appropriate behaviour on the mailing list





From: Jane Doe Subject: Re: Lunch

Yes, we should do lunch. 14:30 sounds good.

John Smith wrote: > Hi guys, > > Should we do lunch this week? > > If so, what time? > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > Toolserver-l at lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l

Top posting is bad because it requires people to scroll down, read the original text, then scroll up again and read the reply. (Many people get a lot of email, and won't necessarily remember what the last mail was about without reading it again.) Here is an example of top posting.


 * When replying, don't "bottom post". Bottom posting is the same as top pos

m posting.


 * When replying, do post inline, and trim quotes. This means that your replies are interspersed with the original mail, and any irrelevant content is removed (trimmed):

From: Jane Doe Subject: Re: Lunch

John Smith wrote: > Should we do lunch this week?

Yes.

> If so, what time?

14:30 sounds good.

ssily read your reply and the content being replied to, even if they haven't seen the original message. For this reason, it is the standard quoting style for public forums on the Internet. Here is an example of inline quoting.