Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

[Steven D'Aprano]

Graham Lawrence wrote:
> Please excuse my last 2 posts, I received a note that I should not
> top-post, so to those two, I bottom-posted, which seems even worse.

The purpose of email is communication. Anything which makes 
communication more difficult should be avoided, whether that is 
top-posting without giving context, bottom-posting with masses of 
irrelevant quoted text, or anything else.


> This time I'm deleting all the repeated text by hand.  Perhaps one of
> you would be kind enough to say if this produces the proper format for
> your mailing list.

In general, you should interleave your replies between the paragraphs 
you are replying to, like this post, and delete anything irrelevant to 
your reply. You should leave enough quoted text to establish context, 
without feeling the need to quote an entire week's worth of posts just 
to reply to one or two sentences.

It is common sense really: before pressing Send, consider how your email 
will appear to the recipient. Will it make sense? Can they understand 
what you are responding to? Do they have to scroll through 20 pages of 
quoted text to see your reply?

Thank you.



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Steven