Subject: Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:22:51 -0500
Screw off.
I'd suggest that you take your own advice', except for the fact that you
probably don't know *how*.
Top posting is actually a default
On 8/3/11 3:01 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
*ANY* situation where the elapsed time between messages is longer than the
recipient's ability to retain the 'frame of reference' (i.e., the previous
message) in memory, it _is_ harder for the recipient of the message to follow
top-posted content than
included, must generally read through posts
sequentially, as it is usually trickier to skip reliably through
quotes to the new material when using synthesized speech to read an
email. We therefore favor top posting as a rule, though some of us
try to adhere to a particular list's preferences
synthesized speech to read an
email. We therefore favor top posting as a rule, though some of us
try to adhere to a particular list's preferences. :-)
This is why one should trim quotes -- so there's just enough there to
provide the needed context, rather than a lengthy record of an entire
From: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au
[snip]
Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have
been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting,
including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc,
after years of your (almost too
5) The use of HTML mail in a mail forum is absurd; however, it is commonly done
(GMail).
this is a problem - as GMail and similar things itself.
6) One of my 'Pet Peeves: Morons who change a thread's subject rather than
start a new one.
was me sometimes by accident, but i do care now not
On Thursday 19 February 2009 05:06:15 GESBBB wrote:
4) The insertion of legally unenforceable disclaimers, etc. is another big
waste of space.
And not always under the control of sender, through the creative use of
outgoing mailfilters.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they
slow
looks like they improved gcc. you can install older from ports.
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Kailash Kailash wrote:
Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have
been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting,
including tail-quoting all
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Kailash Kailash wrote:
Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have
been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting,
including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc,
after years of your (almost too
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Kailash Kailash wrote:
Woj, I'm really surprised that you, of all people, seem lately to have
been converted to the Micro$oft Outlock-trained style of top-posting,
including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant
On November 25, 2007 at 09:49PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
[ snip ]
The footnote was easy to understand after a quick Wikipedia search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Quoting the text (so list members don't have to actually repeat the
search):
Some maintain
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 02:52:06PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
It should be easy in mailing-lists to block mails of top-posters.
It would also probably be prone to false positive errors.
--
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
McCloctnick the Lucid: The first rule of magic
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:48:38AM -0800, David Benfell wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:31:51 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
We have adults who can't be bothered to tell the difference
between lose and loose in writing. Wonderful things encouraged by people
justifying their lazy writing
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:22:50AM +1300, Brent Jones wrote:
I find that top-posting really makes it difficult to follow the flow of a
discussion. I especially find it difficult when someone engages in TOFU
[1] posting, because when I try to check context there's a gawdawful
lengthy blob
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:15PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think it's kind of a chicken-and-egg problem: we don't really know for
sure whether TOFU[1] posting spurred much of the rise of illiteracy or
the increase of relative illiteracy on the Internet led to an increase in
TOFU posting.
was easy to understand after a quick Wikipedia search:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Quoting the text (so list members don't have to actually repeat the
search):
Some maintain that top-posting is _never_ appropriate, and refer to
it jokingly as the TOFU method (from
Hi,
Brent Jones wrote:
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post...
at least, you make me understand what this means.
Yes, it is stupid to avoid top posting as they save a lot of time as
long
On 2007-11-23 21:58, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people
might dislike top posting.
Many here (and elsewhere) will not reply to a top-poster.
I am one of these people.
If I see
David Benfell wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:31:51 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
We have adults who can't be bothered to tell the difference
between lose and loose in writing. Wonderful things encouraged by people
justifying their lazy writing styles.
This might be slightly unfair.
A
On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people
might dislike top posting.
When asking a favor of another, a wise man would not offend his
potential helper. Many here (and elsewhere) will not reply to a top-
poster. You
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:31:51 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
We have adults who can't be bothered to tell the difference
between lose and loose in writing. Wonderful things encouraged by people
justifying their lazy writing styles.
This might be slightly unfair.
A large proportion of the
Robert Huff wrote:
Bart Silverstrim writes:
You're right in that top posting is a savings in effort.
I disagree. It's not a savings, it's a transfer - moves the
work from the poster to the reader.
Okay, I'll qualify my statement by saying it is a time and effort saver
Bart Silverstrim writes:
You're right in that top posting is a savings in effort.
I disagree. It's not a savings, it's a transfer - moves the
work from the poster to the reader. Make that readers, because
/every single reader/ has been imposed on to expend the effort.
Looked
El día Friday, November 23, 2007 a las 08:05:59AM -0500, Bill Moran escribió:
There are three reasons _not_ to top-post and to post inline, trimming
your response intelligently:
1) Top-posting does not scale up to large, complex emails. It produces
incomprehensible responses when
Brent Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input
without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless nesting
of For me, reading through top posted
Brent Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
http://www.asciiartfarts.com/20011201.html
HTH, HAND
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http
Brent Jones wrote:
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input
without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating an endless nesting
of For me, reading through top posted replies saves time
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300, Brent Jones wrote:
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post...
I for one prefer top posting
This has been hashed out on so many technically-oriented lists
Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people might
dislike top posting.
Rather, your entire response is at the top, separating itself from the
context to which it refers.
Furthermore, it can be very confusing to understand precisely what you're
referring to, because your
On Thursday 22 November 2007 21:22:50 Brent Jones wrote:
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post...
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
enough times that I like to cut
(Moved to freebsd-chat where it belongs.)
On Nov 22, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Brent Jones wrote:
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular
thread
enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input
without having to scroll down, sometimes navigating
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:22:50 +1300
Brent Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post...
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular
thread enough times
Sorry if this is a bit off topic for this list, but it seem to be a
comment that comes up very regularly; please don't top post...
I for one prefer top posting, as usually I have read a particular thread
enough times that I like to cut to the chase and read the new input
without having to scroll
On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:54, you wrote:
Check /etc/newsyslog.conf
All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there.
System owned logs are in there per default.
du -k /var will tell you where your space is being consumed.
Maybe your /var/mail/root is growing...
How
Oliver Iberien writes:
It turns out there was a core dump I had not noticed. I had the
idea of running ls -SlhR /var/ /.../var_contents.txt and
looking for anything huge.
Try this instead:
du /var | sort -nr | head -n 25 | sendmail you
I'm a
subscriber to freebsd-questions, top posting, incomplete
questions, inflammatory commentary, etc. is just the price I pay
for getting a steady stream of Aha's, and hardly seems worth the
effort to develop an emotional viewpoint.
Although thought police who say do this and don't do
to it..
Top posting is really inconsiderate and shows lack of experience
I don't agree with this. Please, don't ask me why.
Dont need to know -- but I appreciate your relevant interjection :-)
Think about the effect of long paragraphs and then having to move
backwards and forwards and you read
hay enough of this BS about top posting. You have to wake up to the
fact there are many people who belong to this list who are not UNIX
bigots. Us win/outlook people have just as much right to post as the
rest of you. And more to the point who the hell pointed this new
comer of just 10 days
hay enough of this BS about top posting. You have to wake up to the
fact there are many people who belong to this list who are not UNIX
bigots.
No top posting has been the rule for the list for a long time - since
the beginning as far as I know.The rule has nothing to do with UNIX
On Saturday 28 May 2005 06:42, the author [EMAIL PROTECTED] contributed to
the dialogue on RE: Top Posting (was: [Freebsd 5.4 not finding my NIC]):
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vizion
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:17 PM
Cc: freebsd
someone wrote:
Think about the effect of long paragraphs and then having to move
backwards and forwards and you read one paragraph downwards and
then are
foprced to move upwards to read the subsequent posting
Tha means scanning and rescanning.
Top posting is neither sensible
On Saturday 28 May 2005 09:28, the author Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
contributed to the dialogue on Re: Top Posting (was: [Freebsd 5.4 not
finding my NIC]):
someone wrote:
Think about the effect of long paragraphs and then having to move
backwards and forwards and you read one paragraph
[Ben Haysom, 2004-11-10]
What is top posting?
A: Because it reverses the natural flow of the conversation?
Q: Why is that bad?
A: To write your raply on top of the original message
Q: What is top posting?
(I find that qouting in a resonable manner is far more important than
wheter
Ben Haysom wrote:
What is top posting?
Top posting is when you write your reply _above_ what you are replying
to. This paragraph was posted _below_ the question I respond to.
Among other good practices are: Remove what you are not responding to.
Subject should reflect the content
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 10 August 2004 at 14:58:02 -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not
Chris wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is
too difficult to write a tidy reply?
Top posting? Or inline posting? I inline because it's more like a
conversation style. It's PRECISE. I know exactly what point is being
referred to, and I would think that ambiguity is something in the
technology field that should be AVOIDED.
You should
can easily tell what
was
| written and at what point.
|
| Or do
| you do it because it's too difficult to write a tidy reply?
|
| Top posting? Or inline posting? I inline because it's more like a
| conversation style. It's PRECISE. I know exactly what point is
being
| referred
to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their
own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built
into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook
On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:24:24 PM Bart Silverstrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:45:13 -0400
|From: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: Top posting solution
|To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Content-Type: text
indenting with a quote character.
Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their
own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built
into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client.
There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS/Office
of the message body.
Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their
own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built
into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client.
Not true. See above.
There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere
On Tuesday, 10 August 2004 at 14:58:02 -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't,
Hi Paul,
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:13 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I'm trying to think why someone would be posting to a freebsd list
from a Windows box
Because some of us are working in part on building / servicing a
predominantly Windows network during the day,
of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email
while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a reply with the
cursor at the very top of the message body.
Top posting came along
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix
is irrelevant to how I
feel about top posting.
You can nit pick about wording all you want. It still does not detract
from the fact that there is an 'FIX' to change the behavior of
MS/windows top posting. As always, the reader has the chose in how they
want to reply to posts on this list, top or bottom
On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
It would actually be much nicer if people would return to literacy
standards that existed, not only in the computer world, before
Microsoft came along. I've long given up actively trying to help
people write literate mail. I just ignore
On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a
. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a reply with the
cursor at the very top of the message body.
Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with
their
own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client
built
[...]
Please provide a cite/ref to the Unix email
CRAP. HERE WE GO AGAIN.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
Subject: Top posting solution
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix
hard
regarding quoting
and wrapping the text is clearly visible...
it's not a fix :-(
Giorgos-- it would be reasonable to assume that JJB was using the tool he
speaks of, only that would not be correct; oe-quotefix doesn't work with
Outlook itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting
itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting solution
] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
[ Only someone condemned to support Windows users would want
doesn't work with Outlook itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting solution
] Message-id:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
[ Only someone condemned to support
At 07:54 on Monday, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:50:14 -0500
Denny Jodeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The
charter states no top posting.
I made sure to re-read the list charter when this thread started. I
On Mar 22, 2004, at 00:13, Tony Crockford wrote:
At 07:54 on Monday, 22 Mar 2004, Chris Pressey wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:50:14 -0500
Denny Jodeit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It boils down to a 'When in Rome, do as Romans do' situation. The
charter states no top posting.
I made sure to re-read
On Mar 21, 2004, at 7:35 PM, Lucas Holt wrote:
Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like
when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to
scroll all day.
They should, in my opinion, delete extraneous stuff that doesn't have
anything to do with the
On 2004-03-21T23:26:47-0700, Rob M wrote:
Forgive me if I am out of line here. I am new to FreeBSD and this list, I
have been using both for about a week now after being with Windows since 3.1.
Welcome!
I have always been a top poster and a bottom feeder, I have never known it
was a big
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:40:25 +1030
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh. That's human nature. To quote:
What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each
other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be
improved considerably, because
Forgive me if I am out of line here. I am new to FreeBSD and this list, I
have been using both for about a week now after being with Windows since 3.1.
I have always been a top poster and a bottom feeder, I have never known it
was a big deal and every environment I have been in has top
At 2004-03-22T02:34:36Z, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm missing something here. Top posting, interleaved posting and bottom
posting are not a function of the MUA, they're a function of the human
making a conscious decision how to write a message. What do *you* mean
On 3/21/2004 10:26 PM Rob M wrote:
Forgive me if I am out of line here. I am new to FreeBSD and this list, I
have been using both for about a week now after being with Windows since 3.1.
I have always been a top poster and a bottom feeder, I have never known it
was a big deal and every
At 09:09 22/03/2004 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
When you are posting to a list, there is a time lag and a distance that
needs to be overcome. It is similar, but not quite the same as a face
to face conversation. Retaining relevant material and interspersing
responses comes as close to a
When you are posting to a list, there is a time lag and a distance that
needs to be overcome.
...
I'm more of a lurker on the questions list, although I chime in when I see
something I can help with. I've been reading this through and I don't
think anybody has pointed out one
Rob wrote:
As for MUA... My ex-employer (anybody want an IT support/installation
engineer in the UK?) decided to move everybody and all our clients to
MS Outlook and Exchange. Because that's what people want.
Gotta love PHB's!
And that's another topic
But not much of one.
KDK
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:13:49PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
[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
Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like when
people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to
scroll all day. The other irritant is people who actually post in the
middle of messages. That breaks the FLOW as well. After someone
replies top or
On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote:
Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like
when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post..
Bottom posting, where you leave the entire previous message, is only
marginally better than top posting
The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to
show why top-posting is bad. See the previous message (Message ID
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) for a version that I
consider understandable.
Bottom posting, where you leave the entire previous message, is only
marginally better than top
blogging)
'I try to think but nothing happens'
-- Homer Jay Simpson
Bottom posting, where you leave the entire previous message, is only
marginally better than top posting.
If the text is important, you should be reading it. If it isn't, the
sender shouldn't have included it.
On the contrary
the entire previous message, is only
marginally better than top posting.
On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:15:14 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to
show why top-posting is bad. See the previous message (Message ID
[EMAIL
Bottom posting, where you leave the entire previous message, is only
marginally better than top posting.
If the text is important, you should be reading it. If it isn't, the
sender shouldn't have included it.
On the contrary, it shows you what the discussion is about. In this
example, I'm
Lucas Holt wrote:
Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like
when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. i have to
scroll all day. The other irritant is people who actually post in the
middle of messages. That breaks the FLOW as well. After someone
uidzero wrote:
What's wrong with the convention we have? I'll answer this message a
third time in the style you propose. Tell me if it's easier to read.
This one just gets too long after a thread of 5 or more. I can relate
to the others but, I just don't read any of the thread to start with
So unix mail clients bottom post by design and MS/outlook tops
posts by design.
So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom
post?
DO Unix mail clients have some option to config them to top post?
SO here we are right back at the starting point.
The 2 different groups have to
... both top and bottom ...
All this talk of top and bottom is making me blush and breathe heavy,
LOL (j/k). :-)
Perhaps this dead horse has been sufficiently beaten, that we can let it
Rest In Peace, and move on? :-)
-ste
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
Long/short syndrome.
On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:09:17 -0500, JJB wrote:
So unix mail clients bottom post by design and MS/outlook tops
posts by design.
No, that's not a question of design: it's the way you use them.
On 03/21/04 08:17 PM, Shaun T. Erickson sat at the `puter and typed:
... both top and bottom ...
All this talk of top and bottom is making me blush and breathe heavy,
LOL (j/k). :-)
ROFL. Thank you dearly. That one comment has just made this whole
thread worthwhile!
Perhaps this dead
Hi JJB,
--On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom
post?
Outlook fix http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
OE fix http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
--
Gary
Top posting is irritating. So is scrolling through 20Mb of unedited text
to get to a one line response, which is often Yes, I've seen this too.
Spelling flames are irritating too. And the most irritating of all is
reading messages on a mailing list which deal only with issues of
netiquette.
What
On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:44:12 -0500, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
Top posting is irritating. So is scrolling through 20Mb of unedited text
to get to a one line response, which is often Yes, I've seen this too.
Spelling flames are irritating too. And the most irritating of all is
reading
.
I think the main difference between top- and interleaved-posting is one of
latency. In an office environment, when you're replying within 2 minutes of
receipt of a typically short message, top posting is reasonable. On Usenet
and mailing lists, where you see large, complex questions that get
boss explained that interleaved-trimmed posting is difficult to
read.
I'm missing something here. Top posting, interleaved posting and
bottom posting are not a function of the MUA, they're a function of
the human making a conscious decision how to write a message. What do
*you* mean?
I think
is
one of latency. In an office environment, when you're replying
within 2 minutes of receipt of a typically short message, top
posting is reasonable.
Well, I'll concede that it could barely be acceptable under such
conditions.
On Usenet and mailing lists, where you see large, complex
On 2004-03-21T19:33:58-0600, Gary wrote:
Hi JJB,
--On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom
post?
Outlook fix http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
OE fix
the main difference between top- and interleaved-posting is
one of latency. In an office environment, when you're replying
within 2 minutes of receipt of a typically short message, top
posting is reasonable.
Well, I'll concede that it could barely be acceptable under such
conditions.
On Usenet
On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 22:54:56 -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
On 2004-03-21T19:33:58-0600, Gary wrote:
Hi JJB,
--On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom
post?
Outlook fix
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:40:25PM +1030 or thereabouts, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 22:54:56 -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
On 2004-03-21T19:33:58-0600, Gary wrote:
--On Sunday, March 21, 2004 8:09 PM -0500 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So is there some
happy to chime in about spelling or top posting, where
expertise is relatively easy to acquire. Pretty soon, the list stops
being about freebsd.
On the contrary. I believe there are a lot of people on the list that are
very knowledgable that don't speak up very often. Perhaps they are here
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