Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:13:49 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> Cc: Al Johnson <aj305523@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: Top posting Message-ID: <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> References: <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan>
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--IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format *not* recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] RFC 1855 violation. On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at 20:53:18 +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > So far I only see argument agains top-posting. Why should the number of arguments count? It's their validity. But I think you're miscounting, possibly because of your emphasis on keeping the relevant text away from your reply. > If it makes sense for you, perhaps you could give a couple of > arguments wy you think its a good idee. Well, another one is that I often answer messages on this mailing list. If I see badly formatted messages, I tend to discard them unread. *bingo* No reply. Now could you please tell me what relevance the text below has? I can't see anything to which you refer. If you can do this in a sensible way while breaking the flow in the way you did above, I'll be very impressed. Greg > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: >> I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me. > > I doubt it. > >> I was born to top-post. > > It would make sence if you have a mailer that handels threads and you > are accully following the whole thread. On second thougth: in this case > you could just as easly delete the whole mail. You don't read it any > how. > > It doesn't make sence for ppl who don't have a mailer with thread > capabilty or don't read the whole thread. > >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:28:24PM -0800, Charles McManis wrote: >>> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted >>> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able >>> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, >>> "next message" jump to the bottom. >>> >>> It comes down to opinion I think > > How much sence did this make? > > -- > Alex > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXPNVIubykFB6QiMRArk8AJ9NoSFkn4rQfCw4EXPG73GU9mPcTwCfQy1Q 6Y5/3tNu/XqrwGWTzoSighY= =yttJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IR1Y5IvQhrKgS4e6--
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