From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 16: 1:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C333137B85D for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 16:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0341.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.86] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17C6zf-0004Cz-00; Sun, 26 May 2002 16:00:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF168D9.CFA486A1@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 15:59:37 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mike Meyer , rob , "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.2665.379231.456776@guru.mired.org> <20020526173949.GA230@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.10022.167754.574044@guru.mired.org> <20020526183504.GA472@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.23130.211488.574573@guru.mired.org> <20020526220340.GA1413@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > But your recommended solution for clueless newbies -- not quoting at all > -- makes it totally impossible to follow the thread (without > consulting archives). That was my point. That's only true if you do things that you aren't supposed to do, like increasing the audience beyond its initial scope to be pissy. For example, everyone who is receiving this email already received the email to which it is a reply. So whether the reference is in a mailbox, or in an archive, as long as they are both date-ordered, the will occur in the proper flow order. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message