From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 22:13:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8934D16A405 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:13:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3477B13C44B for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:13:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:13:52 -0500 id 0005644E.45B142A0.00013F5D Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:13:51 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Tore Lund Message-Id: <20070119171351.088e3f06.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <45B11A47.3000801@netscape.net> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> <45B11A47.3000801@netscape.net> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.7; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Mail etiquette X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:13:53 -0000 In response to Tore Lund : > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > "Top posting" is only one issue. Others of great importance are > > trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and > > not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of > > things that people should remove from replies. > > Hmmm. While I can agree with the other points, I don't see much wrong > with one-line paragraphs. I can think of several situations where > one-line paragraphs are perfectly okay. You may have some special cases > in mind. I think there's a miscommunication here. I'm fairly certain that Greg is specifically referring to paragraphs that are one _long_ line ... as in scrolling off the right side of the screen, out the window and down the street. If you're referring to short paragraphs, like this one, you're OK (IMHO). -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.