From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 26 4:56:13 2002 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 A40FC37B401 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:56:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54C9443E3B for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:56:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=cenobite.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 185PXw-0001nN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:56:04 -0700 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 04:55:49 -0700 From: erk! To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netiquette (was Re: linux compatibility in 4.7) Message-Id: <20021026045549.54a56d07.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <003001c27cb6$aedd0e50$32040101@hume> References: <14618792071.20021025171500@dds.nl> <20021025094100.5e455d4d.tapeworm@insekta.org> <12860909042.20021026045657@dds.nl> <003001c27cb6$aedd0e50$32040101@hume> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 01:12:37 -0500 "Charles Pelletier" wrote: > 9. Put your response in the correct place (after the text to which it > replies). It's very difficult to read a thread of responses where > each reply comes before the text to which it replies. just to note, the only reason i'd mentioned that is because i was told, numerous times, that this is how things are preferred here. it made sense, to an extent, particularly for those using clients like pine. on usenet, it's as above, but when i'd first joined the lists (6+ months ago), i received several emails telling me not to. in any case, the one error on my part isn't the point. the point is, 25 quotes lines with what amounts to a "me too" response is just rediculous. sorry if that ruffles anyone's feathers, but last i checked, nobody particularly appreciated those types of mails. to the original person i was replying to, however: i did not mean for my message to be interpreted as saying *you* are rude, as a person..merely that those kinds of posts are needlessly full of unnecessary junk, which is annoying due to slower download times to receive mail, readability, etc, ad nauseam. yes, i made a mistake on the top/bottom quoting thing: i hadn't seen the line that mr. pelletier brought up, and again, i was only going by what i was told numerous times before. i'd also like to give thanks to the multiple copies of each email i was sent, particularly from "daleco", who felt his/her point was so important to express to me, i needed to read it no less than 4 times. - erk! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message