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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:50:41 -0600
From:      uidzero <uidzero@one-arm.com>
To:        FreeBSD Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Top posting
Message-ID:  <405E3861.6010609@one-arm.com>
In-Reply-To: <DD43180C-7B98-11D8-BD54-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com>
References:  <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <DD43180C-7B98-11D8-BD54-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com>

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Lucas Holt wrote:

> Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster.  I don't like 
> when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to  
> scroll all day.  The other irritant is people who actually post in the 
> middle of messages.  That breaks the "FLOW" as well.  After someone 
> replies top or bottom its VERY hard to read.
>
> How about a new convention.  Delete everything but the last reply in 
> the thread when you send to the list and say bottom post.  I can live 
> with that as a top poster.  If I don't have to scroll all day to 
> bottom post, its not a big deal.
>
> The bottom line is that people reply.  This list is here to help users 
> with FreeBSD.  I'd take an answer to my questions in any format!
>

I'm the same way. I take out everything but the last post. (including 
any .sigs) As for reading them any other way, I like them like I'm doing 
now or sectioned off to answer the questions or what not as they come down.

eg...

Original E-mail: > Question: Is this proper?

Next e-mail: Answer: Sure, IMHO

Original E-mail: > Question: Are you sure?

Next e-mail: Answer:  of course. :)

Otherwise, hey everyone. I'm Michael and I'm new to the list. :) Been 
using Linux si
nce 98 and for the past 5 days, I've done nothing but FreeBSD.

bigbsd~>>> uname -a
FreeBSD bigbsd.one-arm.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 20 
15:14:02 CST
 2004     root@bigbsd.one-arm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FW-BSD  i386
bigbsd~>>> df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a   126M    59M    57M    51%    /
/dev/da0s1f   252M  10.0K   232M     0%    /tmp
/dev/da0s1g    15G   9.6G   4.4G    68%    /usr
/dev/da0s1e   252M    34M   198M    15%    /var
procfs        4.0K   4.0K     0B   100%    /proc
/dev/ad4s1     56G   690M    51G     1%    /mnt/storage
bigbsd~>>>

I'm not quite brave enough to go to 5.2.1. :) I must say, in the last 5 
days, I've learned more about FreeBSD than I really learned about Linux 
since '98. :)

Thanks,

Michael

--
Michael D. Whities
uidzero@one-arm.com
http://www.one-arm.com




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