[Cryptography] ADMIN: Periodic reminder about top posting

Jon Callas jon at callas.org
Mon Aug 4 13:56:37 EDT 2014


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On Aug 3, 2014, at 12:55 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> Hopefully this won't hijack the conversation too much, but I had a
> coincidental talk about this yesterday with a non-geek friend who mixes with
> lots of geeks.  She mentioned that the style of conversation used here, quoted
> excerpts and short passages as replies, are very much the exception for email
> exchanges.  The only place she's ever seen it used is by geeks.  The norm for
> all other people (that she's aware of, obviously it's not a sample of the
> entire world) is to include the entire message at the bottom (nested
> arbitrarily deep), and have the reply at the top.  Your mail reader then
> formats it as required.
> 
> This came as something of a surprise to me.

In another anecdote, recently a person who works with me noticed that I that I trim out extraneous stuff, in this style. This person thinks it's great and would like lessons on how to do it.

Now, there are some mail readers that detect replicated sections in a thread and elide them for you. Mail.app on Mac OS X does it.

	Jon


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