Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Irrelevant text trimmed. Long/short breakage *not* trimmed, but left as an(other) example. On Friday, 15 October 2004 at 13:33:37 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-15 09:35, Tom Connolly [EMAIL

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:00 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-18 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 18, 2004, at 8:11 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:00 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-16 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 13 October 2004 at 8:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved.

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: Top posting is generally frowned-upon. People who indulge in it are shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the default of Outlook. There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, created by Dominik Jain, that

RE: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-15 Thread Tom Connolly
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: Top posting is generally frowned-upon. People who indulge in it are shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the default of Outlook. There is a nice little tool for Outlook users,

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-15 09:35, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, [...] http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ We've seen the results

RE: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-15 Thread Tom Connolly
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-10-15 09:35, Tom Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote: There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, [...] http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved. I don't see a problem. What are you talking about? :-) Exactly!

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Simon Burke
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 08:20:19 -0400, Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 12, 2004, at 6:44 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all.

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-13 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Simon Burke wrote: It may also help if you put the good ole hyphen hyphen space enter' decent e-mail clients should see this as the start of a sig an will remove anything below it, i know thunderbird and even gmail does, so it tidys up the default sig

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-10-12 14:06, FreeBSD questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting I find it quite irritating that i have to scroll down everytime I read an email. If you spend a few seconds, every time you post, to trim the material you're

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 12 okt 2004, at 14:12, Andy Smith wrote: Off-list because this is likely to turn into a flame war... On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:06:19PM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting it says you're old... just joking :) I find it quite

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved. :-) -Bart ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
Is top posting a policy on the FBSD list? Yes, it's the norm. There are notable exceptions that show up from time to time[1], but the majority of the posters to all the freebsd.org mailing lists use bottom-posting. You're not going to be shouted at for top-posting, but it *is* annoying, so it

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 12 okt 2004, at 14:47, FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: Is top posting a policy on the FBSD list? Yes, it's the norm. There are notable exceptions that show up from time to time[1], but the majority of the posters to all the freebsd.org mailing lists use bottom-posting. You're not

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
GNU ls can be found in sysutils/coreutils port. (please don't top post) huh? Have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting it says you're old... just joking :) I find it quite irritating that i have to scroll down everytime I read an email... I find it

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 8:42:39 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote: It gets to a point where I solve it by doing this or just no reply at all. Problem solved. I don't see a problem. What are you talking about? From the weekly posting: 7. Include relevant text from the original

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread Adam Smith
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:50:57PM +0200, FreeBSD questions mailing list said: Ok, I'll be top-posting from now an then :) thanks for showing me the light Arno ehm, WON'T of course Yeah, but don't forget to trim all the crap at the bottom aswell:

Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

2004-10-12 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 12, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Top posting is generally frowned-upon. People who indulge in it are shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the default of Outlook. Mac OSX's Mail does the same thing... If moving the cursor is that difficult, you're probably