Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:04:38 +0000 From: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ??? Message-ID: <VedB0GBWXio8EwLZ@caomhin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20020327205400.E30685-100000@small.pukruppa.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> <20020327205400.E30685-100000@small.pukruppa.de>
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In message <20020327205400.E30685-100000@small.pukruppa.de>, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> writes >Hi Sean, > >I always thought "topposting" meant to post on top of someone's >message - the way I do now. But perhaps I am wrong. I am not a >native speaker of the english language. That is correct, and an age old charter says your comment should go underneath because it's often easier to read/follow the thread for most of us. Many people will say this is not true and since it's subjective they will be correct for them and some others, however tradition and good manners suggest it's better to post in this style. Cue pointless debate about the pros and cons for top-posting and how it's evil/the best thing since FreeBSD. Not that these things are predictable or anything. Kevin >On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Sean O'Neill wrote: > >> I recently responded to a reply to one of my questions accidentally to just >> the replier. He ask me not to "top-post". I saw another email just now >> with that same request of someone. >> >> Please excuse my ignorance but what is top-posting ? I've read what I >> think is a currently guidelines for posting questions to freebsd-questions >> at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html but it doesn't explicitly say what >> top-posting is. >> >> I assume it has something to do with only replying to a specific individual >> and not including the freebsd-questions group ? >> >> >> -- >> ........................................................ >> ......... ..- -. .. -..- .-. ..- .-.. . ... ............ >> .-- .. -. -... .-.. --- .-- ... -.. .-. --- --- .-.. ... >> >> Sean O'Neill >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >*-----------------------------------* >* Peter Ulrich Kruppa * >* - Wuppertal - * >* Germany * >*-----------------------------------* > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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