From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 14:55:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D36E37B400 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 14:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 40395 invoked by uid 100); 26 May 2002 21:55:10 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15601.22974.163162.941094@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 16:55:10 -0500 To: Miguel Mendez Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , rob , "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) In-Reply-To: <20020526213146.A67586@energyhq.homeip.net> 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> <20020526213146.A67586@energyhq.homeip.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.55 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 In <20020526213146.A67586@energyhq.homeip.net>, Miguel Mendez typed: > On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 08:35:04PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > 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 :) Yup. People who don't edit the text at all are the worst sinners. Encouraging them to adopt a bad habit - top posting - instead of a good one - editing the quotes - is counterproductive. > This thread is now completely useless, but I like some trolling now and > then as much as the next guy :) This thread re-occurs at roughly three month intervals. Along with the "Why don't the lists set reply-to?" thread. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message