From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 17:01:25 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 866DA16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:01:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from KIL-SM-2.UCIS.Dal.Ca (KIL-SM-2.UCIS.Dal.Ca [129.173.1.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF7F643D2D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:01:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net) Received: from jargonccna.cjb.net (MCoe04661.ResNet.Dal.Ca [129.173.193.115]) by KIL-SM-2.UCIS.Dal.Ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i2M11NVd025522 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:01:24 -0400 Message-ID: <405E3AF6.4000801@jargonccna.cjb.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:01:42 -0400 From: "Matt Coe, CCNA" Organization: Prophecy Newmedia User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 X-Accept-Language: en-ca, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004607.GZ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <405E3940.3080706@one-arm.com> In-Reply-To: <405E3940.3080706@one-arm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: webmaster@jargonccna.cjb.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:01:25 -0000 uidzero wrote: >> 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. > > This one just gets too long after a thread of 5 or more. I can relate > to the others but, I just don't read any of the thread to start with > if the subject or the original post doesn't concern me. :) That's just > me though. Not if the replier (is that even a word? It is now! Ha!) edits carefully for context. Leave out the bits of old messages that no longer relate to the discussion at hand and your replies should be nice and coherent. I've been practicing that for years. -- Matt Coe, CCNA Member-At-Large, Dalhousie University CS Society Fall 2003 'Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out.' -- DNA, 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Arthur Philip Dent Sick of long-distance bills? Get Skype! www.skype.com