From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 26 20:24: 4 2003 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 B114D37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp03.wlv.untd.com (smtp03.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1356F43FBD for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 20:24:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 7756 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2003 04:23:55 -0000 Received: from dialup-63.208.203.155.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (63.208.203.155) by smtp03.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2003 04:23:55 -0000 Message-ID: <3E5D92FB.4010609@netzero.net> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:24:27 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top posting References: <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > >>Hey newbies >> >>Why do people not like topposting in replies? It seems that (from my >>experience) that the business world in general _always_ topposts >>replies. Midposting is contextually relevant. BOTH top and bottom posting are not. > > > A) 30 years of tradition. Que Zero Mostel and his fiddle... > B) This isn't the business world. According to my banner advertising revenue report, this is very true, I am sorry to say... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey Owner HowlerMonkey Email Services Company: http://www.howlermonkey.net/ Inventor of TinyList MLM list server: http://www.tinylist.org/ Consulting Lunatic: http://www.sacredelectron.org/ Remember: it is an ill wind that blows no minds. Fnord. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message