From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 27 15: 3:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84DB37B417 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:03:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com ([24.6.228.202]) by femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011127230347.ENEX28048.femail15.sdc1.sfba.home.com@localhost.lakwod3.co.home.com> for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 15:03:47 -0800 In-reply-to: <20011127232934.P17966-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@tisys.org on Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 11:37:28PM +0100 Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit References: <20011127232934.P17966-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> To: FreeBSD From: Sean LeBlanc X-mda: Mail::Internet Mail::Sendmail Sendmail +mmhack 1.1 on Linux Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-version: 1.0 User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Content-disposition: inline Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:10:22 -0700 Message-id: <20011127161022.A2124@hostwiththemost> 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 On 11-27 23:37, Nils Holland wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > > - Replies are posted at the _TOP_ of the message; saves scrolling when > > following a long thread and keeps everything is reverse chronological order. > Well, I actually disagree with this point. I do not like to put my replies > *above* the original messages. Instead, I use to cut the piece of the > original message to which I am replying to reasonable size and write my > reply below it (just as I did right now). I find this scheme useful, since > if there are multiple points in any given message to which I would like to > say something, the whole thing looks more like a conversation (question 1 > followed by answer 1, question 2 followed by answer 2, etc) and anybody > not familiar with the original message still knows easily what exactly is > going on. Couldn't agree more with this. I really dislike reading top posters' stuff. It's too distracting, esp. when others in the thread followed more traditional email/Usenet protocol, and not MS Outlook's. It's also easier to make out the attribs. But this is, of course, a holy war - I've seen many diatribes going back and forth about this on a linux newsgroup just recently...it may *still* be going on, for all I know. :) It probably has more to do with the first style one saw or used than the actual technical merits...much like Strousoup(sp?) bracing style vs. traditional C bracing style in coding of C/C++/Java/other C-like languages. Anyway, the other points of Scott's I agree with. -- Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc@home.com Yahoo:seanleblancathome ICQ:138565743 MSN:seanleblancathome AIM:sleblancathome To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. Management QOTD:It's a moot point until we actually increase the technology advantage and examine where the rubber meets the road on the corporate memory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message