Re: Top posting

From: uidzero (uidzero_at_one-arm.com)
Date: 03/22/04

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    Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:50:41 -0600
To: FreeBSD Newbies <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>

    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
    > replies top or bottom its VERY hard to read.
    >
    > How about a new convention. Delete everything but the last reply in
    > the thread when you send to the list and say bottom post. I can live
    > with that as a top poster. If I don't have to scroll all day to
    > bottom post, its not a big deal.
    >
    > The bottom line is that people reply. This list is here to help users
    > with FreeBSD. I'd take an answer to my questions in any format!
    >

    I'm the same way. I take out everything but the last post. (including
    any .sigs) As for reading them any other way, I like them like I'm doing
    now or sectioned off to answer the questions or what not as they come down.

    eg...

    Original E-mail: > Question: Is this proper?

    Next e-mail: Answer: Sure, IMHO

    Original E-mail: > Question: Are you sure?

    Next e-mail: Answer: of course. :)

    Otherwise, hey everyone. I'm Michael and I'm new to the list. :) Been
    using Linux si
    nce 98 and for the past 5 days, I've done nothing but FreeBSD.

    bigbsd~>>> uname -a
    FreeBSD bigbsd.one-arm.com 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 20
    15:14:02 CST
     2004 root@bigbsd.one-arm.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FW-BSD i386
    bigbsd~>>> df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
    /dev/da0s1a 126M 59M 57M 51% /
    /dev/da0s1f 252M 10.0K 232M 0% /tmp
    /dev/da0s1g 15G 9.6G 4.4G 68% /usr
    /dev/da0s1e 252M 34M 198M 15% /var
    procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc
    /dev/ad4s1 56G 690M 51G 1% /mnt/storage
    bigbsd~>>>

    I'm not quite brave enough to go to 5.2.1. :) I must say, in the last 5
    days, I've learned more about FreeBSD than I really learned about Linux
    since '98. :)

    Thanks,

    Michael 

    --
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