From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 11:12:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-203-60.mmcable.com [65.31.203.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F30A37B416 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:12:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5951 invoked by uid 100); 28 Nov 2001 19:05:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15365.13670.568722.662388@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 13:05:10 -0600 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list In-Reply-To: <26279900@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan types: > Now, the right answer: use your judgement (as always). If you're > replying to specific points, don't top-post. If you're making a > broader reply and there's no reason to make the reader wade through > previous writing first, then by all means top-post. Why not? In that case, why bother sending the previous writing *at all*? If people really want to read it, it's in the archives. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message