From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 17:43:54 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 AA9B016A55D for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227D943D45 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:43:54 -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 EFE822BD53 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:43:51 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C406851218; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:13:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:13:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Alex de Kruijff Message-ID: <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> 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: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 01:43:55 -0000 --IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format *not* recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] RFC 1855 violation. On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 20:53:18 +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > So far I only see argument agains top-posting. Why should the number of arguments count? It's their validity. But I think you're miscounting, possibly because of your emphasis on keeping the relevant text away from your reply. > If it makes sense for you, perhaps you could give a couple of > arguments wy you think its a good idee. Well, another one is that I often answer messages on this mailing list. If I see badly formatted messages, I tend to discard them unread. *bingo* No reply. Now could you please tell me what relevance the text below has? I can't see anything to which you refer. If you can do this in a sensible way while breaking the flow in the way you did above, I'll be very impressed. Greg > 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. > > I doubt it. > >> I was born to top-post. > > It would make sence if you have a mailer that handels threads and you > are accully following the whole thread. On second thougth: in this case > you could just as easly delete the whole mail. You don't read it any > how. > > It doesn't make sence for ppl who don't have a mailer with thread > capabilty or don't read the whole thread. > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:28:24PM -0800, Charles McManis wrote: >>> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted >>> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able >>> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, >>> "next message" jump to the bottom. >>> >>> It comes down to opinion I think > > How much sence did this make? > > -- > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- 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. --IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXPNVIubykFB6QiMRArk8AJ9NoSFkn4rQfCw4EXPG73GU9mPcTwCfQy1Q 6Y5/3tNu/XqrwGWTzoSighY= =yttJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6--