From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 12: 4:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D400637B433 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:04:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF6BD901A00; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:03:09 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:03:09 -0500 From: mpd To: Sean O'Neill Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ??? Message-ID: <20020327150309.A50633@rochester.rr.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net>; from sean@seanoneill.info on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:42:35PM -0600 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 Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 01:42:35PM -0600, 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. We're finally trying to do away with that here? Good! > > Please excuse my ignorance but what is top-posting ? Top-posting is putting an entire reply to an e-mail at the top of the message, rather than keeping replies with their context, such as I'm doing here. > 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 ? It includes all replies in e-mail and on Usenet. It's considered bad manners and a sign of laziness among Internet veterans, as it's unnatural to read replies in the manner top-posting presents them in. > > Sean O'Neill > mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "WE ARE IN THE BAYOU!" - Pokey the Penguin from "POKEY IN THE BAYOU" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message