John Boyle wrote:
To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-)
Please activate brain v. 1.2 or higher to find the answer. In business email you are often asked to attach the entire previous message because the mail clients typically used in business are too stupid to organize mail threads or mails are answered by a group that sometimes doesn't have the previous mails available and are glad if you include the entire thread. In mailing lists where you ask for someone's advice you are asking someone to spend time to fix your problem for free. Often this someone is a professional sysadmin with little free time. Isn't it only fair to make it as easy and comfortable as possible for him to answer your mail and see what you are refering to? Sandy -- List replies only please! Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com