[gentoo-dev] top-posting and mailing list etiquette

[Aron Griffis]

Lately it seems that both devs and non-devs are getting into the
top-posting habit on this mailing list.  If you're not familiar with
what I mean, here is an example.

    This is a top-posted reply to a message.

    So-and-so wrote:
    > Some text here.
    > Usually the entire message is quoted!

This is an annoying habit.  It's traditional on mailing lists to quote
only the text to which you're replying, and put your reply below the
quote.  For example:

    So-and-so wrote:
    > Some text here.

    This is a proper reply.

Please observe this rule when posting to this mailing list.  For more
information, see

    http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-9
    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer