Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 09:28:09 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net> To: "Eelke Blok" <e.blok@ieee.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: MT: top-posting Message-ID: <01072909280903.00715@mutt.home.net> In-Reply-To: <001f01c11838$b8c46b40$0215e50a@hotrod> References: <15203.62084.40909.149342@guru.mired.org> <20010729080030.A41709@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <001f01c11838$b8c46b40$0215e50a@hotrod>
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Look below for my comments. On Sunday 29 July 2001 09:14, Eelke Blok wrote: > From: "Chris Moline" <ugly-daemon@home.com> > > > How is wrapping text a bad thing?? It is very irritating to get a message > > that is just one big long line. > > I suppose what is meant is that some E-mail programs wrap > text regardless of whether it is quoted from the message > that is replied to or whether it is new text. Outlook > Express, for instance, wraps all lines it sends at some > threshold (I believe it is 76 characters), including > lines preceded by a '>'. This quickly results in messy > quotes. The above quote would have looked something like > > this: > > How is wrapping text a bad thing?? It is very irritating > > to get a message that > > > is just one big long line. > > Personally, I manually wrap the posts I create > using Outlook Express, to stop this from happening. I think its more difficult to comment on what was said all the way down here. Why would someone who is following this thread want to read the same email over and over again just to get someone elses answer? Also new FreeBSD users may not have a clue as to why this angers/irritates you. I will agree that when having an argument or when explaining reasoning behind something its ok to insert your detailed responses at each part of the email you are responding to but not all the time. To everything there is a season.... :) > > Cheers, > > Eelke > -- > Eelke Blok, http://haywire.student.utwente.nl > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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