From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 09:00:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E952E16A4CF; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:00:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2101E43D66; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:00:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i7U90OD4031435; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 05:00:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@127.0.0.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20040830051243.GA976@online.fr> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <007001c485ec$9d3bbb10$3300a8c0@verizon.net> <9FDC1E28-F1E2-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040822015558.GO92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040827114038.GA2453@online.fr> <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr> <20040830051243.GA976@online.fr> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:59:59 +0200 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:00:47 -0000 At 10:42 AM +0530 2004-08-30, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > If you want to go about correcting the world's email habits, you > should (a) make sure that the problem you're seeing is clearly > referenced in the web page you link to, (b) if that's not the case, > say what the problem is. Again, we get back to the problem of it being impossible to enumerate all the potential permutations and combinations of various different things that people might do wrong in formatting a message. If you disagree, then I would invite you to go individually count all the atoms in the universe. When you're done, then count all the atoms that you missed. It is possible to describe a number of common message formatting problems on a web page, and when you discover any kind of formatting problem in a message that you are replying to, you can refer people to that page. If you think you can do better, I would encourage you to do so -- lead by example. Once you have a known working implementation that is superior, show us what you did and how, and we can integrate that with our own methods. You might even wind up teaching Greg a thing or three. Until/unless you can do that, I don't think you're likely to gain much traction here. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.