From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 16:50:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C4716A4D0 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net (ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net [166.102.165.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074D843D3F for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uidzero@one-arm.com) Received: from one-arm.com ([166.102.51.13]) by ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20040322005043.UPJU2670.ispmxmta09-srv.alltel.net@one-arm.com> for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:50:43 -0600 Message-ID: <405E3861.6010609@one-arm.com> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:50:41 -0600 From: uidzero User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040321) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Newbies References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:50:44 -0000 Lucas Holt wrote: > Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like > when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to > scroll all day. The other irritant is people who actually post in the > middle of messages. That breaks the "FLOW" as well. After someone > replies top or bottom its VERY hard to read. > > How about a new convention. Delete everything but the last reply in > the thread when you send to the list and say bottom post. I can live > with that as a top poster. If I don't have to scroll all day to > bottom post, its not a big deal. > > The bottom line is that people reply. This list is here to help users > with FreeBSD. I'd take an answer to my questions in any format! > I'm the same way. I take out everything but the last post. (including any .sigs) As for reading them any other way, I like them like I'm doing now or sectioned off to answer the questions or what not as they come down. eg... Original E-mail: > Question: Is this proper? Next e-mail: Answer: Sure, IMHO Original E-mail: > Question: Are you sure? Next e-mail: Answer: of course. :) Otherwise, hey everyone. I'm Michael and I'm new to the list. :) Been using Linux si nce 98 and for the past 5 days, I've done nothing but FreeBSD. bigbsd~>>> uname -a FreeBSD bigbsd.one-arm.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 20 15:14:02 CST 2004 root@bigbsd.one-arm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FW-BSD i386 bigbsd~>>> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 126M 59M 57M 51% / /dev/da0s1f 252M 10.0K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/da0s1g 15G 9.6G 4.4G 68% /usr /dev/da0s1e 252M 34M 198M 15% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc /dev/ad4s1 56G 690M 51G 1% /mnt/storage bigbsd~>>> I'm not quite brave enough to go to 5.2.1. :) I must say, in the last 5 days, I've learned more about FreeBSD than I really learned about Linux since '98. :) Thanks, Michael -- Michael D. Whities uidzero@one-arm.com http://www.one-arm.com