From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 16:51:09 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 AFD5216A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5014A43D31 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:51:09 -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 69F3F2BD8C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:51:07 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 89DA251211; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:21:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:21:05 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Lucas Holt Message-ID: <20040322005105.GA52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004514.GY52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040322004607.GZ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004514.GY52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Al Johnson 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 00:51:09 -0000 --7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:13:37 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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.. > > "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only > marginally better than top posting. On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:15:14 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to > show why top-posting is bad. See the previous message (Message ID > 20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I > consider understandable. On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:16:07 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to > show why bottom-posting (where a reply is completely separate from the > original message) is bad. See the first message (Message ID > 20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I > consider understandable. You might also like to count the length of the three messages. The one with the interleaved answers is the shortest. This is because I trimmed unnecessary text. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXjh5IubykFB6QiMRAoOhAKCznoZ+qRgY664sIDTRYtJzKnjmLACfX1Q7 o7w1b2EaGsxpHtFyYipuZiU= =1jh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim--