From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 17:58:39 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 6F4A416A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:58:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EADC543D2D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:58:38 -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 129282BD7F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:58:36 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 4C20B51211; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:33 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:28:33 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Scott Ballantyne Message-ID: <20040322015833.GC52612@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> <1079919851.55643.8.camel@ns.ssr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BKMA2OjimIttCqMD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1079919851.55643.8.camel@ns.ssr.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 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 01:58:39 -0000 --BKMA2OjimIttCqMD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:44:12 -0500, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > 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. Nothing makes you read them. > 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? It's still there. But obviously this matter is of interest to enough people that it's worth discussing on the list, especially since it influences the likely success of a post to the list. If it doesn't interest you, do what you do with other messages that don't interest you: delete them. 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. --BKMA2OjimIttCqMD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXkhJIubykFB6QiMRAquHAJ40bY6/ENReTo/xdQGmFn3mmxPyyACdF+Ye XAm8WeLRjxk0RIVvjjSL2QI= =aFcJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BKMA2OjimIttCqMD--