From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 26 15:57:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr (postfix3-2.free.fr [213.228.0.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E30937B642 for ; Sun, 26 May 2002 15:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-3-62-147-138-220.dial.proxad.net [62.147.138.220]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D17182C7 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:53:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 1715 invoked by uid 1001); 26 May 2002 22:53:26 -0000 Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:53:26 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: Mike Meyer , rob , "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Bottom-quoting (was Re: My friends were amazed at FreeBSD...) Message-ID: <20020526225326.GB1562@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> <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> <3CF165D4.A7C8E6F4@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CF165D4.A7C8E6F4@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE 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 Terry Lambert said on May 26, 2002 at 15:46:44: > > Business letters and other so-called "snail mail" has evolved > certain formate structures for the data contained therein so > that people can operate with certain assumptions, thereby > making their lives easier. Email has done the same, even if > people have been slow to recognize this fact. Funny you should say that. All business-related or official email I receive, without exception -- secretaries, banks, officials, whatever -- uses bottom-quoting. I in turn bottom-quote when I reply to them. That's what they're used to, they operate with that assumption, and it makes their lives easier (as you nicely put it) -- while I'm used to both forms so it doesn't matter to me. (Exception: when I'm replying to a very specific point which is a small part of their long mail, I top-quote that point.) - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message