From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 12:31:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E259A37B401 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 12:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF3D3FCAC; Sun, 26 May 2002 21:31:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from flynn@localhost) by energyhq.homeip.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4QJVk5P067645; Sun, 26 May 2002 21:31:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 21:31:46 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Mike Meyer , rob , "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) Message-ID: <20020526213146.A67586@energyhq.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Rahul Siddharthan , Mike Meyer , rob , "chat@freebsd.org" 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020526183504.GA472@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:35:04PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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". =20 > >=20 > > 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.=20 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, --=20 Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE88TginLctrNyFFPERAhxxAJ9sm0fxMbUSw85NqGy55mtVtvFoDQCfSaFW xhTlqyAJbNWs506M8lQqMOk= =CIU5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message