Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:11:34 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Email Etiquette on this list Message-ID: <200111281611.fASGBY126404@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2001 16:10:22 MST." <20011127161022.A2124@hostwiththemost>
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Sean Supplied > Couldn't agree more with this. I really dislike reading top posters' stuff. > It's too distracting, esp. when others in the thread followed more > traditional email/Usenet protocol, and not MS Outlook's. It's also easier to > make out the attribs. But this is, of course, a holy war - I've seen many > diatribes going back and forth about this on a linux newsgroup just > recently...it may *still* be going on, for all I know. :) "Holy War" only in the same context that the "debate" about when the 21st century starts was a holy war. In each case, there is a correct answer. In this one, the correct format was well exstablished before most of the top-posters were even born. It's nothing more than a case of charging into an existing culture and ignoring the social norms--and then insisting that the ignorance is correct. Top posting is wrong. It's ignorant. It's really that simple. hawk > -- What part of "non-negotiable" didn't you understand? /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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