From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 14:58:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F7E37B400 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:58:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp297.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.163] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16qMN1-0003X4-00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:58:20 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0900450BB3; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:00:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:00:33 -0500 From: parv To: Sean O'Neill Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ??? Message-ID: <20020327230033.GA7589@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Sean O'Neill , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> 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 in message <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net>, wrote Sean O'Neill thusly... > > 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. to top post is to reply above a quoted message. reason for not to top post is not to lose message context. to see such atrocities in rage, just try the minolta mailing list on yahoo. one such example... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta/message/44704 > I assume it has something to do with only replying to a specific individual > and not including the freebsd-questions group ? no, it's not the receiver of reply but the style. see above. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message