From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 11 15:06:08 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3EF33487C for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49jRy63pr6z3Z1l for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1591887967; x=1594479967; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info; bh=XT63TXQezlcr/Xgi6KezXdEgnkT6ApES5IFEFYva6rc=; b=phd61YAuowFuqIN3BUNJnmawBvINYPNKEEpBpAvR06lhhTk6IFXfdBnxh4OgkgnxmBxsICG1MHqUmb6lyq9vBCL03odeQdGUK2x1GGeRQx8oRrGRSBnUh2IcEFuaWa+a/UsuX9T+7CfNZ3cZ8h16XJ4HAdvtJ+cKsQykHnLYev4= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC45Mi4xZDRjMTAwMDkwYzBmNDQuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9ZnJlZWJzZC5vcmc= Received: from r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.190.2]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:06:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r2.us-west-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:06:02 -0400 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.92.3 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1jjOmF-0002gs-H3; Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:05:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:05:59 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Aryeh Friedman Cc: Yuri Pankov , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: freebsd vs. netbsd Message-Id: <20200611160559.0203b14f687c029b8311c13d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <171506d5-19aa-359e-c21d-f07257c52ebd@freenetMail.de> <20200610063555.00003707@seibercom.net> <82F57D0D-E0EC-49F7-824E-20A296C9F549@kicp.uchicago.edu> <250b853a-b436-0e99-b05c-9abd6b6019ef@panix.com> <20200611070630.2cb42786.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200611091449.383e1d83@archlinux> <53a6833e-db63-2395-4d2e-f05a9b1fb269@boxsci.com> <20200611112418.0bb0c896b685c84ed8d6a8f6@sohara.org> <20200611135639.0c07500e@archlinux> <36a71c5c-ccf0-d28d-c6c1-1d9c80873a12@yuripv.dev> <20200611151006.6fd1b33af49b7b07e8f4994f@sohara.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; amd64-portbld-freebsd12.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49jRy63pr6z3Z1l X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=email-od.com header.s=dkim header.b=phd61YAu; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of 4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com designates 142.0.176.198 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.64 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.02)[-1.022]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[email-od.com:s=dkim]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:142.0.176.0/20]; TAGGED_RCPT(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sohara.org]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.995]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[email-od.com:+]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.93)[-0.925]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[142.0.176.198:from]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[steve@sohara.org,4250.82.1d4c100090c0f44.6f0fa0a0072243659dc805439a967946@email-od.com]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:06:08 -0000 On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:20:53 -0400 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 10:10 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith > wrote: > > > There is a different set of conventions appropriate in the > > corporate email context (and probably personal email but threads are > > less common there). To whit top posting and retention of complete > > context. > > > > Oddly people usually say inline is the better way to preserve context (I > actually agree). Yes it is, in a mailing list. However in the corporate environment where you might receive a mail thread that has been bouncing around for some time because someone thinks you can usefully contribute. In that context having the complete history available in the message helps even if you have to read the whole stack from the bottom up to catch up. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/