Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:00:30 -0600 From: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MT: top-posting Message-ID: <20010729080030.A41709@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:24:52AM -0500 References: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org>
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On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:24:52AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > I'm seeing an increase in the number of answers that "top post". That > is, the answer is placed above the text of the question. Like > wrapping the text of a message, this seems like a good idea at first How is wrapping text a bad thing?? It is very irritating to get a message that is just one big long line. > glance, and might actually be a local improvement. But the result of > global adoption of such practices is to make reading - and replying - > to email harder. To quote Greg Lehey's "How to get best results from > FreeBSD-questions" <URL: http://www.lemis.com/questions.html#answer >: > > 9. Put your response in the correct place (after the text to which it > replies). It's very difficult to read a thread of responses where each > reply comes before the text to which it replies. > > So, would everyone please stop top posting? I heartily agree. Sincerly, Chris Moline To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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