Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 21:31:46 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>, "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) Message-ID: <20020526213146.A67586@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020526183504.GA472@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:35:04PM %2B0200 References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.2665.379231.456776@guru.mired.org> <20020526173949.GA230@lpt.ens.fr> <15601.10022.167754.574044@guru.mired.org> <20020526183504.GA472@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:35:04PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
Hi,
> > > it, among other celebrities, and it's pretty standard in the "real
> > > world".
> >
> > If by "real world", you mean "clueless computer users", I'd agree
> > with that.
LMAO @ that. But I'd give that Torvalds is clueless, it took him 10
years to discover CVS :-P
> You haven't said why it's wrong to bottom-quote (apart from the
> bandwidth issue). You claim that it's as "annoying" as top-quoting an
> entire post, which is strange, since if it's bottom-quoted you're not
> forced to look at it.
Both bottom-quote and top-quote are *horrible*. I find it very annoying
and common among OutLook users to send me an answer and my whole
original mail at the bottom. I think I know what I wrote :)
> Is it really necessary to quote the message ID, sender's name *and*
> sender's address in the attribution line, thus causing it to overflow
> the margin? What happened to the "keep to 72 characters" rule?
Heh, touche.
> How about adding a few spaces between those lines, to distinguish
> paragraphs more clearly? A carriage-return character wouldn't consume
> significant bandwidth and it would make the whole thing much more
> readable.
Mutt shows different quotation levels in different colours. No big deal.
Perhaps you need a decent MUA :)
This thread is now completely useless, but I like some trolling now and
then as much as the next guy :)
Cheers,
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