From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 16:43:49 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 3E94416A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD4B643D1D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:43:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B3F2BD8D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:43:39 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4FC1851211; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:13:37 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:13:37 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lucas Holt Message-ID: <20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Tm6VLls/w6NsRApE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: Al Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:43:49 -0000 --Tm6VLls/w6NsRApE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like > when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post..=20 "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only marginally better than top posting. > i have to scroll all day. If the text is important, you should be reading it. If it isn't, the sender shouldn't have included it. > The other irritant is people who actually post in the middle of > messages. That breaks the "FLOW" as well. On the contrary, it shows you what the discussion is about. In this example, I'm answering your points one by one. I'll repeat the whole thing with top posting. Tell me if it's easier to read. > After someone replies top or bottom its VERY hard to read. Agreed, mixing styles is the worst of the lot. That's a very good reason to insist on one style. > How about a new convention. Delete everything but the last reply in > the thread when you send to the list and say bottom post. I can > live with that as a top poster. If I don't have to scroll all day > to bottom post, its not a big deal. What's wrong with the convention we have? I'll answer this message a third time in the style you propose. Tell me if it's easier to read. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --Tm6VLls/w6NsRApE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXja5IubykFB6QiMRAilOAJ997qeISnvHhtjSFiBjDwyTzTVdCwCbBOAT 6P00x43Bui5K10Id9abHix0= =iMBl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Tm6VLls/w6NsRApE--