Quoth Chuck Swiger on Monday, 20 September 2010: > Hi, Steve-- > > On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Steve Ames wrote: > >> PS Would you mind not top posting > > > > Seriously? Top posting is somehow worse than scrolling to the bottom of > > pages > > of compile output to see a tiny response? Welcome to the 21st century. > > Welcome to the FreeBSD mailing lists. Please see: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#ETIQUETTE-REPLYING > > "Please do not top post. By this, we mean that if you are replying to a > message, please put your replies after the text that you copy in your reply. > > ? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > ? Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?" > > Regards, > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Speaking of the 21st century, a decent e-mail user agent (like mutt) can be configured to take you to the bottom of the message with one or two keystrokes, and a modern email composer (like vim in conjunction with mutt) can automatically quote and place you at the end of the quoted passage when replying. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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