From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Feb 27 5:39:30 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 513CF37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from aphrodite.gwi.net (aphrodite.gwi.net [207.5.128.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA1F43FAF for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 05:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ah40@httpsite.com) Received: from andy.gwi.net (blake.gwi.net [207.5.142.8]) by aphrodite.gwi.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1RDdR143282 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:39:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ah40@httpsite.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 08:40:04 -0500 (EST) From: ah40@httpsite.com To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top posting 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 On 26-Feb-2003 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. > > A) 30 years of tradition. > B) This isn't the business world. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message There's always the simpler reason, many mua's autoinsert your sig at the bottom. :) -- Andy Harrison ah##@httpsite.com ICQ: 123472 AIM/Y!: AHinMaine homepage: http://www.nachoz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message