From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 17:22:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B28816A4CE; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:22:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4C343D39; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:22:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i7THM19p087764; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:22:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@127.0.0.1 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <007001c485ec$9d3bbb10$3300a8c0@verizon.net> <9FDC1E28-F1E2-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040822015558.GO92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040827114038.GA2453@online.fr> <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:21:29 +0200 To: Rahul Siddharthan From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:22:06 -0000 At 4:32 PM +0200 2004-08-29, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >> Lines re-wrapped, I should think. Or, if he's responding to >> e-mail that was formatted in HTML, then it's probably the first ASCII >> conversion/line-wrapping job that has been done to them. > > None of the above. As you'd have known if you saw my mail (it's in the > archives). I did see the message in question. However, I know that my own MUA does line re-wrapping and HTML formatting, so it's hard for me to be sure that I'm seeing exactly the same thing that Greg does with his MUA. Therefore, it's hard for me to know for certain what Greg might be thinking when he sees the same message on his end. I can say that I've known Greg for a while, and over the years I have never known him to make a mistake of this sort on messages that he is replying to. In this case, I came to what I believed to be highly likely conclusions based on the history I've seen from him and the messages that he has responded to in the past, and then extrapolated from that as to what I felt he was probably complaining about in your specific case. I will concede that I was not correct in the conclusions I came to. However, I believe that the overall process was reasonably sound, albeit not completely perfect. That said, I don't think I made any absolute statements as to what Greg was definitely thinking at the time or what he was precisely complaining about. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.