Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:21:29 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad Message-ID: <p06002079bd57bed84da1@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <007001c485ec$9d3bbb10$3300a8c0@verizon.net> <9FDC1E28-F1E2-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040822015558.GO92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040827114038.GA2453@online.fr> <p06002068bd54de2a1bf6@[10.0.1.3]> <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr>
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At 4:32 PM +0200 2004-08-29, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>> Lines re-wrapped, I should think. Or, if he's responding to
>> e-mail that was formatted in HTML, then it's probably the first ASCII
>> conversion/line-wrapping job that has been done to them.
>
> None of the above. As you'd have known if you saw my mail (it's in the
> archives).
I did see the message in question.
However, I know that my own MUA does line re-wrapping and HTML
formatting, so it's hard for me to be sure that I'm seeing exactly
the same thing that Greg does with his MUA. Therefore, it's hard for
me to know for certain what Greg might be thinking when he sees the
same message on his end. I can say that I've known Greg for a while,
and over the years I have never known him to make a mistake of this
sort on messages that he is replying to.
In this case, I came to what I believed to be highly likely
conclusions based on the history I've seen from him and the messages
that he has responded to in the past, and then extrapolated from that
as to what I felt he was probably complaining about in your specific
case.
I will concede that I was not correct in the conclusions I came
to. However, I believe that the overall process was reasonably
sound, albeit not completely perfect.
That said, I don't think I made any absolute statements as to
what Greg was definitely thinking at the time or what he was
precisely complaining about.
--
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