From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E844e-0002Uh-GG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:50:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7OMm82S004584; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:48:08 GMT Received: from bungi.sjc.warped.net (bungi.sjc.warped.net [192.83.249.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7OMgDdA005241 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:42:13 GMT Received: from mail.pbp.net (mail.pbp.net [64.151.65.198]) by bungi.sjc.warped.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47224B3AE for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (www.pbp.net [192.168.10.38]) by mail.pbp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C768671A for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:43:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <430CF807.9020700@pbp.net> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:43:19 -0700 From: Jonathan Nichols Organization: pbp.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description? References: <20050823112654.GA31003@lugmen.org.ar> <430CD9AF.4030204@pbp.net> <430CE320.8020905@gt.rr.com> <200508242145.02046.mcbrides9@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <200508242145.02046.mcbrides9@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9a7fe042-38ce-4f70-ba58-a1a7feb5cdf1 X-Archives-Hash: 121c375facbf39dd1c5d2c697b24bf51 > For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to > get to the "new response" of the OP. > > I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the > default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS.... > It's also the default for Gmail and Thunderbird, as I mentioned before. Fortunately, Thunderbird lets you change it. Holly posted a nice little how-to as well.. ;) The biggest problem that I run into is more often than not, the top posting types leave the *entire email conversation* below their reply. They don't trim it. They end up causing *more* scrolling to get to the issue at hand. That's bad. I remember the days of "netiquette." I guess I'm a grizzled old Usenet hippie. :| -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list