Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 18:00:33 -0500 From: parv <parv@pair.com> 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: <20020327230033.GA7589@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net>
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in message <5.1.0.14.0.20020327133848.00a5a560@postoffice.swbell.net>, wrote Sean O'Neill thusly... > > 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. to top post is to reply above a quoted message. reason for not to top post is not to lose message context. to see such atrocities in rage, just try the minolta mailing list on yahoo. one such example... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minolta/message/44704 > I assume it has something to do with only replying to a specific individual > and not including the freebsd-questions group ? no, it's not the receiver of reply but the style. see above. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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