From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 16 01:48:47 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 C5DAE107803E for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mason@blisses.org) Received: from phlegethon.blisses.org (phlegethon.blisses.org [50.56.97.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77450886BE for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:48:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mason@blisses.org) Received: from cocytus.blisses.org (cocytus.blisses.org [64.223.129.151]) by phlegethon.blisses.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC24194EBF; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:48:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from blisses.org (acheron.int.blisses.org [10.0.1.10]) by cocytus.blisses.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B9AB680AB5; Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:48:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:48:44 -0400 From: Mason Loring Bliss To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello... Message-ID: <20180816014844.GB18637@blisses.org> References: <175f53e88fb5ebf26527882827080cd7@cannabis.fr.pl> <20180815182210.GA23701@sh4-5.1blu.de> <20180815185702.GA8882@sh4-5.1blu.de> <20180816014323.b6325a66.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180816014323.b6325a66.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) 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: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:48:47 -0000 --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 01:43:23AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Remember: >=20 > Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > Top-posting. > What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? >=20 > And: >=20 > Yes. > Are you sure? > Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > Why is top posting frowned upon? I want to steal all of this now. Thank you. From my perspective, anything other than interleaved posting is = an abomination. Bottom posting containing pages of cruft is just as bad as top posting. If our tools make it hard to write email properly, we need better tools. Th= en again, maybe people need to have a better introduction to good tools. Maybe documentation is the answer. > http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html \o/ --=20 Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because mason@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal Abels= on --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIbBAEBCgAGBQJbdNf8AAoJEJ6yV3B27yVVgI8P9junI20bEPUpIw8/PsCTOB5l DEOJh26I2lVIJRIKvM008R+s//YbFtQMiZZk4cm+LAKzZLieKtLojfXLnCQhz1CE x7SMk5tjiiN4a9nDqLQTGn6EsFeXQggsdZKpDLggQUq6hPd4JTSqvSLzKyiQ/bK8 d/Zk27p3kSL6nV/hdok9u/mTLAPxa+VsqdQedXblDNVih2VOeRX6QgA+ztyD4TGv 4KbkXu9cBXWUaDQ20H1iEG3kR5rkRhhO3v1jxSrQgm9ReHS1axVSSVD/5ChgGBb/ mPqWVye0VnD6QyT66m/6MW0JXACJMGdRP3ZdgYC7bIaNim5pShz+M5QNdmoXYM4V aWtaY4vPk0Wqr3HTi6dnzj3JdOpMiVtsgcw1Cwezohp+6ww9UQob69O1AE9/j8d7 mHzy38b++GJ03W+ddd2jJqJ5uI7WKxzgASQmE7zzQM9S4YnADWTCG4s4UCjjBrw0 86wnb9JKOWML532khddILwelcfbtw6W3Kc0eyS0MEPx0rIAIRrezX3IsKYMmQ4AF GfZABW3OtwwBUtFSBkEI81ADpuLmaAe/StWgJX0x4mfrVMbPyjpP7z2Adg8h2gca bsUC4KF0SSw4VBiDIuk9KLUNZo5B0b3EVA6ZvILgFeAtl0oGqMQvoCmxG+WJV35Q bwHnB9J8TmO0CcAXz70= =GvmZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b5gNqxB1S1yM7hjW--