Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:41:40 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello... Message-ID: <a65f555d-bd1c-311d-ae9e-893beb819591@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20180815120028.4e90ebf2@hokkshideh.dream-tech.com> References: <175f53e88fb5ebf26527882827080cd7@cannabis.fr.pl> <CAHieY7RcckjyMFARvsc2M9wD%2BAhphb4kcEjtVZPsN0TnQJvX%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <20180815182210.GA23701@sh4-5.1blu.de> <CAHieY7SfrWi1yvg6CBTLxfP-p8eoOhDzv0PBDauV2X7TLDosvw@mail.gmail.com> <20180815120028.4e90ebf2@hokkshideh.dream-tech.com>
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On 08/15/18 14:00, Dave Hayes wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:30:22 -0400 > Alejandro Imass <aimass@yabarana.com> wrote: >> Nobody is religious about top posting anymore > > This is not true at all. A fair number of older sysadm ... er IT people > are quite religious about this practice. Wow, that apparently disqualifies me from "older sysadmins". I do avoid top posting on mail lists (just respecting other people point of view that someone may be reading just this message). I do, however, have my reply to all other mail exchanges above everything, that is what the recipient needs to read when gets that message: what I am writing this time. Valeri > Perhaps the lack of > observable religion in your case stems from the idea that older people > tend to refrain from witnessing their religion more often than younger > ones? > > Neither methodology appears more "correct" to me. Top posting > gets to the reply quicker, but bottom posting preserves the > conversation flow in what is considered by some to be a logical manner. > > The real problem here is the religion of it, not the posting habits or > preferences themselves. > >> get over it it's almost 2020 > > Your implied assertion that "newer is always better" is a fallacy. > > You'll also note that I try to address my comments to the phrase you > typed that is relevant. This is the real benefit to quoting someone > else: making sure your replies are in context. > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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