It's about time someone posted something like this, yet I can't ever recall seeing FAQs sent to this list, it may as well be me: It is much preferred that participants to mailing lists write, and reply, to messages in the manner the majority prefers, and the manner that the list instructions told you to use in the first place. You're expecting help from others, it's polite to make the effort to fit in. You will probably not get as much help, perhaps from those who have the most useful answers, if you don't. When replying, write your responses underneath what you're replying to. So that *whoever* next reads the message, can read the whole thing in order, from top to bottom, in a clear and coherent manner. Either write your responses directly under the specific bits of the message that you're responding to (interspersed posting). Or, entirely below the prior message (bottom posting), though this makes it harder for people work out what your responses are related to. i.e. To make it easier to follow a message, make it read like a conversation. And edit out any extraneous stuff from prior messages that doesn't need to be quoted. It's a waste, and makes reading the message more cumbersome. It does not matter where your mail program leaves the cursor when you hit reply, use your fingers to change it's position, and cut and erase unneeded text as you go along. HTML messages are not preferred. They cause problems, and waste far more bandwidth and storage space than simpler text-only message. For more information, look at the links provided (below) from the mailing list, itself:

Looks like you skipped the part about trimming :-)

On 02/21/2016 06:49 AM, g wrote: > would you believe i pressed <shift+ enter> instead of <shit+up arrow> > when i had cursor setting on line "> For more information"? > > would you believe i started laughing just after when the "Send Message" > and i pressed <enter>? too much conditioned reaction. Thank you, Maxwell Smart, for that explanation.