From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 15:25:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B134E16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:25:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8517543D1F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 24BC2A3; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:25:00 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:24:59 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040319232459.GF3884@seekingfire.com> References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <200403191428.24150.cmcmanis@mcmanis.com> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-GPG-Key-ID: 828AFC7B X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5584 14BA C9EB 1524 0E68 F543 0F0A 7FBC 828A FC7B X-GPG-Key: http://www.seekingfire.com/gpg_key.asc X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:25:00 -0000 On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: > I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. > > It comes down to opinion I think My standard response to top-posting: A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion. Best regards, -T -- "It's hard to find people in society who can administer UNIX and professionally carry a weapon." - Jim Williams, former FBI Computer Intrusion Squad agent