[gnso-rpm-wg] Posting Style (was Re: Proposed Implementation of GNSO Consensus Policy Recommendations for the Protection of IGO&INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs)

[Susan Payne]

I'm aware of how it displays in the official archive.  I simply disagree that this is easier to read or "good practice".  In the current example your message would have been delivered much more effectively by saying "The deadline for the IGO/INGO comment is now two days away - please see my earlier email (copied below)" rather than expecting us all to search for the salient information embedded within other text.  But there you go - I've just done that for you.  

Susan Payne
Head of Legal Policy | Valideus Ltd

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-----Original Message-----
From: gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org [mailto:gnso-rpm-wg-bounces at icann.org] On Behalf Of George Kirikos
Sent: 10 July 2017 12:24
To: gnso-rpm-wg <gnso-rpm-wg at icann.org>
Subject: [gnso-rpm-wg] Posting Style (was Re: Proposed Implementation of GNSO Consensus Policy Recommendations for the Protection of IGO&INGO Identifiers in All gTLDs)

Hi Susan,

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:42 AM, Susan Payne <susan.payne at valideus.com> wrote:
> George, could you possibly please just email what you want to say in one place rather than inserting text into the middle of other communications?  Below is how it displays for me (and presumably for others too).  It's difficult to spot what you are actually saying - this looks like an email that says "Hi folks," and then nothing else.

That might be an issue with your email client software, as the message displays properly for me, and in the official archives. e.g. see how it appears at:

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/gnso-rpm-wg/2017-July/002169.html

As I noted in an earlier discussion, it's often good practice to use "inline replying" [or "interleaved posting"] (to quote just the relevant text from a prior discussion, trimming the text accordingly), rather than engage in "top-posting" (which can end up with very very long emails where just a few sentences appear at the top of an email, with dozens of older messages appearing below.

See the article on Posting Style at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

"Some style guides recommend that, as a general rule, quoted material in replies should be trimmed or summarized as much as possible, keeping only the parts that are necessary to make the readers understand the replies."

"Interleaving continues to be used on technical mailing lists where clarity within complex threads is important."

Top-posting requires scrolling down below all the "new" text of an email thread to determine its context, which is less natural and less productive, in my opinion, than inline replying.

Sincerely,

George Kirikos
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