From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 26 13:37:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EEF37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:37:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from whowhere.com (in02-fes1.whowhere.com [209.202.220.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ED7E43FE1 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdaemon@eudoramail.com) Received: from Unknown/Local ([?.?.?.?]) by whowhere.com; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:37:10 -0000 To: "Johnson David" , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:37:10 -0800 From: "Joshua Lokken" Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sent-Mail: on Reply-To: bsdaemon@eudoramail.com X-Mailer: MailCity Service X-Priority: 3 Subject: Re: Top posting X-Sender-Ip: 130.94.160.46 Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.eudoramail.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:34:32 Johnson David wrote: >A CEO, vice president, director, or anyone else who thinks PowerPoint is >the pinnacle of technology, would be posting their reply in this area. >This is probably because their mail client has topposting on by >default. > >On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:42 am, Doug Barton wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Joshua Lokken wrote: >> > Hey newbies >> > >> > Why do people not like topposting in replies? It seems that (from >> > my experience) that the business world in general _always_ topposts >> > replies. >> >> A) 30 years of tradition. >> B) This isn't the business world. > >But anyone else, within or without the business world, would be posting >their repy here. Bottom posting makes sense because it puts the reply >into context. People like to read from top to bottom. They don't like >to read from bottom to top just to figure out what the heck the reply >is talking about. For a 4 or 5 line post it doesn't matter too much. >But for a 4 or 5 PAGE post, it makes a big difference. > >David > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > That makes sense, thanks. Joshua Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message