From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 17:44:13 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 C2EF916A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:44:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.ssr.com (ns.ssr.com [199.4.235.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D01243D49 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sdb@ssr.com) Received: (qmail 57206 invoked by uid 103); 22 Mar 2004 01:44:12 -0000 From: Scott Ballantyne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20040322004514.GY52612@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> <20040322004514.GY52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1079919851.55643.8.camel@ns.ssr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:12 -0500 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 01:44:13 -0000 Top posting is irritating. So is scrolling through 20Mb of unedited text to get to a one line response, which is often "Yes, I've seen this too." Spelling flames are irritating too. And the most irritating of all is reading messages on a mailing list which deal only with issues of netiquette. What ever happened to the very sound advice that used to be preached that such messages should be sent privately, to the perpetrator of the breach, rather than broadcast to the many readers of freebsd-questions who are more interested in getting freebsd answers than a lesson in netiquette? sdb -- sdb@ssr.com