On 4-Feb-2010, at 16:45, objectwerks inc wrote: > And the top posting person can glance down below at the last thought. It > works the same way. It really does. (As long as the posting style of a > thread does not change -- which IS annoying)
Only if there is only one reply. What if there are 6 replies. all with full sigs and list footers, of course, because an insignificant portion of top-posters ever trim anything. If you need to refer to what the penultimate post said, or (horrors!) further back, it is almost impossible to find the appropriate level. Here are the first three messages from this thread pasted together into typical TOFU-posting style. Finding what the original posts said is very difficult. Now expand this out to the full *EIGHTY-ONE* messages in this thread and imagine trying to find the original post. Impossible. Now, scroll down to the end. On 2-Feb-2010, at 12:41, Karl Kuehn wrote: > > I think you have it, but should put in a --erase to make it both > faster, and a more exact copy. Oterwise you are getting a fancy copy > operation, and it is going to take a long time. > > On 2-Feb-2010, at 12:20, Milo Velimirovic wrote: > >> Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner? >> >> http://bombich.com/ >> >> - Milo >> >> On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: >> >>> Will the following asr command create a bootable copy of the root >>> filesystem? I'm hoping to do this command on my running MacBook Pro, and >>> then swap the original 150GB boot drive for the external 500GB Maxtor, as I >>> am out of space on my internal laptop drive. >>> >>> sudo asr restore --source / --target /Volumes/Maxtor >>> >>> Or perhaps there is a better way? >>> >>> Thanks >>> Jon >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MacOSX-admin mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin >>> >> >> -- >> Milo Velimirović >> Unix Network Administrator - ITS Network Services >> 608-785-6618 Office - 608-386-2817 Cell >> University of Wisconsin - La Crosse >> La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 48 N 91 13 53 W >> -- >> There's a reason Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson have been awarded the U.S. >> National Medal of Technology (1998) and are fellows of the Computer History >> Museum Online. Dave Cutler hasn't and isn't. >> "You are not expected to understand this." >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin >> > > -- > Karl Kuehn > > [email protected]_______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin *** *** SCROLL TO HERE*** *** Here are the first three posts in the thread with proper 'bottom' posting (actually, inline, but in this case there's one thread, so no actual inlining has occurred) On 2-Feb-2010, at 12:41, Karl Kuehn wrote: > > On 2-Feb-2010, at 12:20, Milo Velimirovic wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: >> >>> Will the following asr command create a bootable copy of the root >>> filesystem? I'm hoping to do this command on my running MacBook Pro, and >>> then swap the original 150GB boot drive for the external 500GB Maxtor, as I >>> am out of space on my internal laptop drive. >> >> Mike Bombich's Carbon Copy Cloner? >> >> http://bombich.com/ > > I think you have it, but should put in a --erase to make it both > faster, and a more exact copy. Oterwise you are getting a fancy copy > operation, and it is going to take a long time. This is absolutely, indisputably, obviously much easier to read and to follow. All the extra crap is trimmed out, the conversation follows a linear order, and it's much shorter. Sure, this might require a screen scroll on an iPhone, but only that. The other will have you scrubbing up and down multiple screens trying to find the original question. This format works for extremely deep threads. I've seen posts on USENET with more than 30 levels of quoting, and still follow-able. -- 'What good is a candle at noonday?' --Sourcery _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
