From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 13:17:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3A116A404 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D8913C44C for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:17:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-29-241.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.29.241]:60855 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H7tcx-0001V1-6u for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:17:55 +0100 Received: (qmail 29249 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2007 14:11:11 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 19 Jan 2007 14:11:11 +0100 Received: (qmail 29166 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Jan 2007 14:11:11 +0100 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:11:11 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Greg Albrecht Message-ID: <20070119131111.GA29133@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Albrecht , Greg 'groggy' Lehey , Dak Ghatikachalam , freebsd-questions , Murray Taylor References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> <39ed86f90701181524x3c21c9f7sce09907f72a3f9c1@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <39ed86f90701181524x3c21c9f7sce09907f72a3f9c1@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H7tcx-0001V1-6u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1H7tcx-0001V1-6u e3b56534cf4dcf2bcc72b8a1948bce09 Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam , freebsd-questions , Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:17:56 -0000 On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:24:44PM -0800, Greg Albrecht wrote: > On 18/01/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> Top-posting defined simply ... > >> > >> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. > >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > >> A: Top-posting. > >> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > > >> Unfortunately all Micro$lop 'standard' email clients and a few > >> others put the cursor at the top of the email, so the bad habit has > >> developed across the world both domestically and in businesses, to > >> write there, rather than continuing the email thread at the bottom. > > > >"Top posting" is only one issue. Others of great importance are > >trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and > >not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of > >things that people should remove from replies. > > i've been wanting to chime in on this. perhaps it should be taken into > consideration that a good number of MODERN email clients support > automatic threading of messages. this allows me to see each reply to a > message after the original message, in succession. i understand that > different people configure and use their email clients in different > ways, but why is there such a pandering towards one versus the other. > my email software (gmail right now but has been mutt and thunderbird > in the past) makes it really easy for me to get the context of a > message as soon as it arrives. perhaps it's time for the rest of the > world to step up and add auto-threading to their mta's? Emails can arrive in a different order than they were sent, and people do not always keep all the emails they receive. There it is often the case that people do not have the original message to get the context from. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se