Hi, Bill:
0) Thanks for
bringing up the NANOG posting guideline. We now have something
tangible to discuss.
1) Section 6. looks
most relevant. So, I copy and paste it below for our discussion:
A. 6.1.1. "... > relevant excerpt 1 response to
excerpt 1 ... ": This seems to be what I have
been doing, except maybe how to interpret the keyword "excerpt".
Perhaps you are expecting me to cite more text from the message
that I am responding to, such as a complete paragraph, instead
of only a short phrase or two? If so, I certainly will be glad
to do so.
B. On the other
hand, the leading sentence "When posting to the NANOG list
please avoid:
Top-posting, i.e., putting your reply right on top of the
message you're responding to, ... " seems to discourage
threading the messages (keeping
a long tail of the earlier texts)?
Perhaps there is
some kind of optimal trade-off between how much each of these
two should be included in a message?
2) The two URLs are
kind of odd:
A. The first URL
led me to a blank webpage.
B. The second URL
led me to a list of Q&A's that seem to be more humorous than
instructive.
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6. Posting
Conventions
- Format
When posting to the NANOG list please avoid:
- Top-posting, i.e., putting your reply
right on top of the message you're responding to, rather
than quoting and responding as follows: > relevant
excerpt 1
response to excerpt
> relevant excerpt 2
response to excerpt
> relevant excerpt 3
response to excerpt
- Using non-standard methods of quoting
prior text;
- Failing to quote, or to snip, as
appropriate;
- Sending in HTML or other non-standard
attachment formats;
- Starting or participating in flame wars.
The linux-kernel mailing list FAQ provides
detailed instructions for quoting prior text:
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s3-9
"Dear Emily Postnews" at http://www.templetons.com/brad/emily.html makes
lots of good suggestions about signatures and
other items of interest.
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Please review and
advise.
Regards,
Abe (2022-04-06 17:31)
On 2022-04-06 11:33, William Nelson
wrote:
<snip...>
I am still learning the proper eMail etiquette on NANOG. Could you please echo back some of my writings as you received? So that I can see what they got transformed to.
</snip>
There is no transforming of your formatting after you send it. It's frustrating in the format you typed it in.
https://archive.nanog.org/list/faq#posting
-bn.
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