Comments on: You just might be a sysadmin… http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/ Brooding Enlightenment! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:04:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: halfdime http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/comment-page-1/#comment-11 halfdime Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:28:56 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-11 To clarify, by top-post I mean that someone takes an email and without any thought posts to the top of the message. This is most egregious when associated with long email threads and "me too" relplies. I prefer in-line replies. For a good treatment of the topic, please see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855" rel="nofollow">RFC 1855</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Posting_style&printable=yes" rel="nofollow">wikipedia</a>. To clarify, by top-post I mean that someone takes an email and without any thought posts to the top of the message. This is most egregious when associated with long email threads and “me too” relplies.

I prefer in-line replies.

For a good treatment of the topic, please see RFC 1855 and wikipedia.

]]> By: JustKristin http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/comment-page-1/#comment-10 JustKristin Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:30:50 +0000 http://eschew.littleoldone.com/2008/04/08/you-just-might-be-a-sysadmin/#comment-10 Dude, you'll have to constantly have homicidal feelings for me, then, because I feel like killing people who do NOT top-post (if, by "top-post", you mean insert the body of your reply at the top of an email). The only time I will include original text above the body of my reply is when I am quoting it to give it specific attention. I hate <i>hate</i> <b>hate</b> having to scroll to the very bottom of an email to find the response. A related pet-peeve concerns email clients that assume that you always want your signature to go at the bottom of an email, reply or otherwise. @#$%#$ :) Dude, you’ll have to constantly have homicidal feelings for me, then, because I feel like killing people who do NOT top-post (if, by “top-post”, you mean insert the body of your reply at the top of an email). The only time I will include original text above the body of my reply is when I am quoting it to give it specific attention. I hate hate hate having to scroll to the very bottom of an email to find the response. A related pet-peeve concerns email clients that assume that you always want your signature to go at the bottom of an email, reply or otherwise. @#$%#$

:)

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