[Borgbackup] mailinglist etiquette / style reminder

[Thomas Waldmann]

Dear mailing list users,

I noticed that the style of the postings to this list recently left a
lot to be desired.

Just as a short reminder (please google yourself for longer mailing list
style / etiquette writeups if you did not read one yet):

It is usually not neccessary nor good style to completely quote a
previous message - one should only quote the part one is responding to
(so that it is clear to what the response is referring to).

One shall remove everything that is not needed for that purpose.

It usually should look like this:

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> part of the previous post you are addressing

your response BELOW the stuff you are addressing.

> another part of the previous post you are addressing

your response to that other part.

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The reason for this is that you do not want to waste the readers' time
they would need to locate the essential (new) part of your message
between a lot of old stuff they've already read.

Thanks for writing nice posts.

Thomas

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