From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 14:37:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (pns.wobline.de [212.68.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBAB37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from colt.ncptiddische.net (ppp-218.wobline.de [212.68.69.229]) by mcqueen.wolfsburg.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/tw-20010821) with ESMTP id fARMbgv01435; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:37:42 +0100 Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by colt.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fARMcxt58509; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:38:59 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from jodie.ncptiddische.net (jodie.ncptiddische.net [192.168.0.2]) by jodie.ncptiddische.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fARMbS617977; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:38:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:37:28 +0100 (CET) From: Nils Holland To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011127232934.P17966-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > - Replies are posted at the _TOP_ of the message; saves scrolling when > following a long thread and keeps everything is reverse chronological order. Well, I actually disagree with this point. I do not like to put my replies *above* the original messages. Instead, I use to cut the piece of the original message to which I am replying to reasonable size and write my reply below it (just as I did right now). I find this scheme useful, since if there are multiple points in any given message to which I would like to say something, the whole thing looks more like a conversation (question 1 followed by answer 1, question 2 followed by answer 2, etc) and anybody not familiar with the original message still knows easily what exactly is going on. However, I would of course not require others to adopt to this scheme. There are many ways things can be done, and your suggestion, putting a reply on top of the original message, can work just as well. In my opinion, the biggest mistake that can actually be made is quoting a *long* message in full and then replying to it. When the text you added in your reply is shorter than the ammount of text you quoted, you most likely did something wrong... Greetings Nils Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message