From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 12:11:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AC616A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:11:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1252043D48 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:11:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsilver@chrononomicon.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [192.168.0.42]) by mail.chrononomicon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E556B126D95 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:11:52 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <20041016060030.GB679@eucla.lemis.com> References: <20041012100113.GB17178@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <3041E897-1C37-11D9-B5AA-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> <20041012101328.GW45436@caffreys.strugglers.net> <20041012105731.GY45436@caffreys.strugglers.net> <2069400E-1C47-11D9-B5AA-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> <20041012123632.GA24875@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <3374E306-1C4C-11D9-8416-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <20041012224421.GF48218@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3F255E1F-1D12-11D9-9B22-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> <20041016060030.GB679@eucla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:11:54 -0400 To: FreeBSD Question List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:11:54 -0000 On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:00 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim > wrote: >> >> On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >>> On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim >>> wrote: >>>> It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply >>>> at >>>> all. >>>> >>>> Problem solved. >>> >>> I don't see a problem. What are you talking about? >> >> :-) Exactly! > > No, you're missing the point. IIRC (and I'm not going to check), > you've again removed relevant content. Please don't bother to reply > if you don't want to tell people what you're talking about. That WAS the point. I said "it gets to the point where I solve it by doing this..." right at the very top of this...it's still quoted. It is a tongue and cheek way of saying I erase all that originally unthreaded topposted crap and just say, "What did you want?" back to the sender of the email. They can send me a message stating specifically what they want so I don't need to waste my time stuttering through a stream of five messages to figure out what the heck they wanted. My alternative is to just not reply at all. Just like the first line said. I thought most people would get the joke from the thread subject being "topposting" :-)