From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 12:37:02 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 E61FB16A4CE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:37:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9FB43D39 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:37:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229])i9CCah9x014910; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:36:50 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i9CCaa3T027601; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:36:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i9CCaWlg027553; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:36:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:36:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd@amadeus.demon.nl Message-ID: <20041012123632.GA24875@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <208449C5-1C32-11D9-B5AA-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2069400E-1C47-11D9-B5AA-0003939726F0@amadeus.demon.nl> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:37:03 -0000 On 2004-10-12 14:06, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: > >Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting > > I find it quite irritating that i have to scroll down everytime I read > an email. If you spend a few seconds, every time you post, to trim the material you're replying to, removing signatures, cutting off parts that are irrelevant to your reply, you shouldn't have to scroll through pages of text to read the reply. Bottom-posting works well only if you combine it with a careful style of quoted text trimming. If you just copy/paste the entire message you're replying to and add a couple of lines after its end, it's silly, annoying and a total waste of bandwidth; exactly like top-posting and quoting the replied messages in its entirety. > Is top posting a policy on the FBSD list? Yes, it's the norm. There are notable exceptions that show up from time to time[1], but the majority of the posters to all the freebsd.org mailing lists use bottom-posting. You're not going to be shouted at for top-posting, but it *is* annoying, so it would be nice if you didn't. [1] Jordan Hubbard, a very respectful and promiment members of the FreeBSD community, uses top-posting. I've seen others top-post too, like Matt Dillon, Julian Elischer, etc.