Xorg install

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Sep 7 17:07:58 PDT 2006


On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:58 PM, g wrote:
> i'm sorry what is top posting?

Compare:

A: Putting the reply above the question.
Q: What is top posting?

...to:

Q: What is the preferred way to exchange email on the FreeBSD lists?
A: Quote what you reply to [1], then put your response or answer  
afterwards.

:-)

> if it is offensive, i certainly don't mean to do it.

No harm done.
It's just much easier to follow conversations on the mailing list  
when people do not top-post.

-- 
-Chuck

[1]: And if there is a lot of content, trim all but a relevant  
paragraph or two,
rather than quoting hundreds of lines in order to add a one-line  
statement.



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