From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 19 16:30:50 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 5FC2D16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:30:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from deluge.umist.ac.uk (deluge.umist.ac.uk [130.88.120.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D93A43D1F for ; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 16:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lewiz@fajita.org) Received: from lh014.halls.umist.ac.uk ([130.88.163.14] helo=mail.fajita.org) by deluge.umist.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B4UNy-0007Ie-SD; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:30:46 +0000 Received: from majic.fajita.org ([192.168.0.4]) by mail.fajita.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30; FreeBSD) id 1B4UNX-0008vp-6L; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:30:19 +0000 Received: (from lewiz@localhost) by majic.fajita.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2K0UI1t034336; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:30:19 GMT (envelope-from lewiz) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:30:18 +0000 From: Lewis Thompson To: Tillman Hodgson Message-ID: <20040320003018.GB34271@lewiz.org> Mail-Followup-To: Lewis Thompson , Tillman Hodgson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <200403191428.24150.cmcmanis@mcmanis.com> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040319232459.GF3884@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040319232459.GF3884@seekingfire.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 90A4 939E 3847 A3E4 8103 2A48 22DA B428 542F ED3F X-GPG-Info: http://www.lewiz.org/~lewiz/pgpkey / horowitz.surfnet.nl User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: lewiz@fajita.org 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: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:30:50 -0000 --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:24:59PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: > My standard response to top-posting: >=20 > 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? =2Esiht ekil I .doog si sihT -lewiz. --=20 I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@lewiz.net | jabber:lewiz@jabber.org | url:www.lewiz.org |- --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAW5CaItq0KFQv7T8RAmtNAJ9bN5SYigATI7WvBehl8oqsQePZRQCg+viy mxVkLlYjiCNczybU130hAww= =Jqfu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zx4FCpZtqtKETZ7O--