From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 25 8:51:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA4037B406 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 08:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id g4PFpnp42721 ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:51:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id RAA70122 ; Sat, 25 May 2002 17:51:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:51:49 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: rob Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD... Message-ID: <20020525175149.A69827@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020524143036.C67484@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020524164101.P51722-100000@muheleja.eenet.ee> <20020524163603.L81843@lpt.ens.fr> <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3CEECD6A.5E9BB6A6@pythonemproject.com>; from rob@pythonemproject.com on Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:31:54PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 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 rob said on May 24, 2002 at 16:31:54: [snip entire quote of irrelevant mail] > Now, I've gotten a "haircut" on the OpenBSD list from Theo, but for good > reasons :) Maybe you need another haircut :) or your mails do, they're too long on top. There is no earthly reason to quote an entire mail on top of each of your mails. If your mail client doesn't allow you to delete lines[1], maybe you could bottom quote instead. Some people don't like it, but it's better than forcing your readers to wade through lines and lines of irrelevant stuff which they've read already, before getting to your point... Rahul [1] though I'm sure it does - just rtfm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message