From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 18 13:11:51 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 9972A16A4CF for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:11:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.chrononomicon.com (chrononomicon.com [216.37.143.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D55443D54 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:11:51 +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 862E61273A3 for ; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:11:44 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: 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: <415F99C6-2107-11D9-BCBA-000D9338770A@chrononomicon.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Bart Silverstrim Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:11:42 -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 13:11:51 -0000 On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: > > 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" :-) Bad form to reply to myself, but I wanted to clarify that I was clarifying, not trying to sound snippy. I'm sorry if anyone interprets the message as such (I just reread it after it appeared in the mailing list and realized how snotty it sounded...wow, need more caffeine :-) Have a good day everyone! -Bart