From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 9:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23C4B37B404 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 09:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2906 invoked by uid 100); 26 May 2002 16:16:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15601.2665.379231.456776@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 11:16:41 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: rob , "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... In-Reply-To: <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr>, Rahul Siddharthan typed: > rob said on May 24, 2002 at 16:31:54: > [snip entire quote of irrelevant mail] > > Now, I've gotten a "haircut" on the OpenBSD list from Theo, but for good > > reasons :) > Maybe you need another haircut :) or your mails do, they're too long > on top. There is no earthly reason to quote an entire mail on top of > each of your mails. If your mail client doesn't allow you to delete > lines[1], maybe you could bottom quote instead. Some people don't > like it, but it's better than forcing your readers to wade through > lines and lines of irrelevant stuff which they've read already, before > getting to your point... If your mail reader is that broken, don't quote. All the stuff that's been read before is irrelevant whether it's on the top or the bottom. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message