Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:56:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ??? Message-ID: <20020327205400.E30685-100000@small.pukruppa.de> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net>
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Hi Sean, I always thought "topposting" meant to post on top of someone's message - the way I do now. But perhaps I am wrong. I am not a native speaker of the english language. Regards, Uli. On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Sean O'Neill wrote: > I recently responded to a reply to one of my questions accidentally to just > the replier. He ask me not to "top-post". I saw another email just now > with that same request of someone. > > Please excuse my ignorance but what is top-posting ? I've read what I > think is a currently guidelines for posting questions to freebsd-questions > at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html but it doesn't explicitly say what > top-posting is. > > I assume it has something to do with only replying to a specific individual > and not including the freebsd-questions group ? > > > -- > ........................................................ > ......... ..- -. .. -..- .-. ..- .-.. . ... ............ > .-- .. -. -... .-.. --- .-- ... -.. .-. --- --- .-.. ... > > Sean O'Neill > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > *-----------------------------------* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa * * - Wuppertal - * * Germany * *-----------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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