From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 6:58:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net [24.67.61.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEFB137B43B for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 06:58:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@home.com) Received: by h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5B5BA66B060; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:00:30 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 08:00:30 -0600 From: Chris Moline To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MT: top-posting Message-ID: <20010729080030.A41709@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 06:24:52AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" : > > 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