Posting etiquette (Was Re: SysEx banks? - Errata)

> On 09/07/2022 10:58 AM EDT [email protected] wrote:
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> This is the beginning of what I see in a text only client -- didn't bother to
> copy the whole thing...

I will be sticking to plain text then.  Wasn't sure before, if formatted text has become acceptable here. 
 
> If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML;

Good idea.  I was previously concerned about including more context for potential newcomer readers... But I guess one can always read previous messages in the thread -- that's what threads are for (to the tune of "..that's what friends are for")

> avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma included at no

I used to religiously quote and post at the bottom (avoid top posting).  But then landed in a corporate environment where all of the (hundreds) of my coworkers had **absolutely no clue** about bottom posting, and had no notion of "top posting" and why that's a bad thing.

Plus, our corporate mail client of choice (Outlook) has done everything possible to make quote/bottom posting a skull-numbing exercise.

I will quote-post here.

> charge.) If you change topics, change the Subject: line.
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> Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal agreements excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including

writing in forums and mailing lists is *always* meant for others to read.

> liberal use of whitespace and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations,
> acronyms, and references.
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> If someone else has already responded to a question, decide whether any
> response you add will be helpful or not ...
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> A picture is worth a thousand words -- divide by 10 for each minute of video

The above tip itself is not coherently phrased.  Attaching videos/stills is bad? Or preferred? Divide what by 10, exactly?  Video play time? Either way - sounds like a contrived metric that's not always applicable... videos come in vastly varying quality and levels of informativeness.  

Also, there is a 40k limit on attachments in this mailing list (as I mentioned recently in another thread). This limit provides little to no opportunity to attach good resolution still images, let alone videos.