Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:06:18 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "eBoundHost: Artur" <artur@eboundhost.com>, Frank Shute <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Subject: Re: who wrote this Message-ID: <20071126170617.GD71160@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071126130142.GA85191@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <000401c82fb0$191b53b0$f300a8c0@outkast> <000301c82fbe$6ff618b0$6701a8c0@mobility> <20071126013321.GA82569@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <001d01c82fd1$d0722130$6701a8c0@mobility> <20071126130142.GA85191@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:01:42PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:12:36PM -0600, eBoundHost: Artur wrote: > > > > >PS. What should be abolished on the grounds of decency is top posting > > >& rehashing topics that have been gone on about ad nauseum, & on the > > >wrong mailing list. > > > > My apologies for top posting, will never happen again. I've never posted > > to a list before. > > That's OK but what isn't OK is to take somebody elses post & > selectively edit it when quoting from it, like you have done to my > post. > > You also failed to address most of my points. So! He doesn't have any responsibility to respond to all of your posts. He can respond to whichever ones he wants and ignore all the rest. That goes for selectively editing. That is part of the recommended behavior on the list - to edit out the parts not specifically relevant to the response so people don't have to wade through a lot of irrelevant crap to find the actual response. It is as important as that other anti-social behavior called top-posting. ////jerry ... lots excised ... > > Follow-ups to chat&freebsd.org please. > > Regards, > > -- > Frank > > Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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