From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 15 19:41:43 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06613106E222 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from kicp.uchicago.edu (kicp.uchicago.edu [128.135.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB96775E5 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:41:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from point.uchicago.edu (point.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.6]) by kicp.uchicago.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C25FB718093 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:41:40 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Hello... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <175f53e88fb5ebf26527882827080cd7@cannabis.fr.pl> <20180815182210.GA23701@sh4-5.1blu.de> <20180815120028.4e90ebf2@hokkshideh.dream-tech.com> From: Valeri Galtsev Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:41:40 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180815120028.4e90ebf2@hokkshideh.dream-tech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:41:43 -0000 On 08/15/18 14:00, Dave Hayes wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:30:22 -0400 > Alejandro Imass 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++