From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 12: 5:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1DF837B420 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-4-24-207.dial.proxad.net [213.228.24.207]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA495FD3D for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:02:54 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 507 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Nov 2001 20:02:51 -0000 Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:02:51 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <20011128210251.A444@lpt.ens.fr> References: <26279900@toto.iv> <15365.13670.568722.662388@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15365.13670.568722.662388@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:05:10PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386 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 Mike Meyer said on Nov 28, 2001 at 13:05:10: > 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*? To provide a general context? > If people really want to read it, it's in the archives. But I don't want to fire up my web browser every time I read mail. Especially if I'm downloading my mail over a modem and reading it offline. I agree it's not always appropriate (in fact it usually isn't) and it's irritating when the bulk of the message is an unedited quote of someone's previous message (but this is equally irritating when quoted on top, so it's a different issue). I don't like rigid rules like "never do this" on matters of etiquette. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message