From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 22:22:57 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 52D3616A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B049F43D46 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) Received: from localhost.invalid (nat-server.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.245])i2M6KPTs031276; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:20:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ecrist@adtechintegrated.com) From: Eric F Crist Organization: AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc To: Scott Ballantyne Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 00:22:36 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <200403212001.23710.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <1079923600.55643.25.camel@ns.ssr.com> In-Reply-To: <1079923600.55643.25.camel@ns.ssr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_0YoXAP+0VocIKBf"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403220022.44441.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: ecrist@adtechintegrated.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:22:57 -0000 --Boundary-02=_0YoXAP+0VocIKBf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:46 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 21:01, Eric F Crist wrote: > > Also, it's nice to see some people who don't post a whole lot speak up > > about something. To all those, welcome! > > That's rather the problem. People who don't know much about unix are > perfectly happy to chime in about spelling or top posting, where > expertise is relatively easy to acquire. Pretty soon, the list stops > being about freebsd. On the contrary. I believe there are a lot of people on the list that are= =20 very knowledgable that don't speak up very often. Perhaps they are here to= =20 simply see what other people are having problems with, perhaps they're here= ,=20 as you say, with little knowledge. Personally, I don't care. I'm happy to= =20 be a part of a community that's willing to help eachother. I feel this particular thread is an issue that could help many. Maybe my=20 knowledge or opinion doesn't mean much to you, buy perhaps to others. I,=20 personally, ignore HTML and incorrectly formatted messages. If I'm=20 personally interested in a thread, I will read it, regardless of format, bu= t=20 not if I'm simply trying to help a fellow BSDer out. If Joe Shmoe (sorry i= f=20 that person really exists) composes an email that contains 18 previous=20 messages and top-posts, amongst other things, I'm FAR less likely to read=20 that message, much less reply. I'm anal enough to even edit those stupid=20 forwards all of us get from our friends that are a combination of attachmen= ts=20 and copy/paste so that it only contains the pertinent info. Mind you, this= =20 is only on the RARE email I feel is good enough to forward on myself, which= =20 is hardly ever random junk. Please allow us, without harrassement, to discuss issues people on this lis= t=20 find important. As Greg said earlier, if you don't like this thread, simpl= y=20 delete it. We're not making you read it. It hardly uses enough bandwidth= =20 for you to stress over. Have a great night, or morning, or whichever. =2D-=20 Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 --Boundary-02=_0YoXAP+0VocIKBf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAXoY0zdyDbTMRQIYRAkqDAJ4yYqDHJe5E0eo9DX2qqJ4X3Sm3YwCdEWqn Dfy1kgD49zEfkU8m1PWYoRw= =SjoG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_0YoXAP+0VocIKBf--