From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Feb 26 12:34:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC90A37B401; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7D643FCB; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:34:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HAX00FPBNRTY9@thor.acuson.com>; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:33:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:26:36 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-161.acuson.com ([157.226.46.161]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R04ADX; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:28:16 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:34:32 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Top posting In-reply-to: <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet> To: Doug Barton , Joshua Lokken Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Message-id: <200302261234.32431.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A CEO, vice president, director, or anyone else who thinks PowerPoint is the pinnacle of technology, would be posting their reply in this area. This is probably because their mail client has topposting on by default. On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:42 am, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > Hey newbies > > > > Why do people not like topposting in replies? It seems that (from > > my experience) that the business world in general _always_ topposts > > replies. > > A) 30 years of tradition. > B) This isn't the business world. But anyone else, within or without the business world, would be posting their repy here. Bottom posting makes sense because it puts the reply into context. People like to read from top to bottom. They don't like to read from bottom to top just to figure out what the heck the reply is talking about. For a 4 or 5 line post it doesn't matter too much. But for a 4 or 5 PAGE post, it makes a big difference. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message