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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H6UCE-0008OJ-Pv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:56:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0FFtMIX000290; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:55:22 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0FFp2Zr016036 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:51:03 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4578d5e5.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.213.229]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l0FFox3q025736 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:51:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 35BDE27F; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:50:42 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can no longer switch to a VT - OT References: <4589178A.5090704@charter.net> <200612201937.48166.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <45A1FA41.1030102@charter.net> <200701091426.20599.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <45AB3E78.3000901@charter.net> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:50:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45AB3E78.3000901@charter.net> (Gabriel Rossetti's message of "Mon\, 15 Jan 2007 09\:42\:32 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: a798cca5-f877-44a5-ac58-94e00f5c8f4e X-Archives-Hash: 0150aefee09d1f8d3182094333bfd5bd At Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:42:32 +0100 Gabriel Rossetti wrote: > Thank you for your replay Benno, I was not aware that "Top-posting" > was a bad thing, since you can read the last msg first, which is to me > better since I don't want to have to re-read/skip the whole history to read > the last post. This point has merit when it is a personal conversation between two people. Although I still bottom reply in those cases (or inline reply as you would say), I can see why top replying is not so bad. However, for mailing lists where there are many readers, a number of whom have not been actively following the thread, bottom posting is annoying. Also I save some message from this group as reference to be read much later if I encounter a similar problem. Then bottom-posting is considerably better. thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list