From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 13:11:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tninet.se (lennier.tninet.se [195.100.94.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D3037B436 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 13:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.umu.se (h16n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.16]) by lennier.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 994294.263480.1017.0s15380684lennier ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:11:20 +0100 Message-ID: <3CA23579.9732F661@cs.umu.se> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:11:21 +0100 From: Paul Everlund X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean O'Neill Cc: Peter Ulrich Kruppa , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ??? References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020327135843.00ac94d0@postoffice.swbell.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean O'Neill wrote: > > At 08:56 PM 3/27/2002 +0000, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > >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. > > Yeah, I've learned my lesson - thanks. No need for anyone else to reply -- > thanks :) Maybe top postings should be avoided because of this very simple reason: When you speak to someone, asking a question, you often do not get the ans- wer before you've asked the question. People can not yet read minds, though some people claims they can. Also, in a conversation, you say something, and then the other person says something, and so on... This can also be applied here, although your first message will be a monologue, but the reply will be of the form of a dialogoue, putting the reply text at the right places. By intuition, not top-posting, follows the rules for a "normal" conversation. Also, as someone mentioned, it's a bit easier to follow someones line of thinking, if putting text where it belongs. Maybe this is the reason for not top-post? At least it's a very intuitive one. Just some thoughts running through my head, but I might be wrong. :-) Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message