2009/6/30 <per...@pluto.rain.com>: > Jerry McAllister <jerr...@msu.edu> wrote: >> > See subject >> It is impolite to expect someone responding to a message to >> have to go back to the subject line like this. >> > See subject >> is a very inadequate and somewhat tersely offensive. > > To each his own, I guess. In the case of a one-liner question > which is adequately asked in the Subject, some of us find it a bit > annoying to see the same question repeated as the only body line. > >> It certainly does not help those with a text based Email reader >> that does not show the subject in the included text for a response. > > I'd expect it to have been reused -- prepended with Re: if it didn't > already start that way -- as the Subject: of the reply.
Assuming you hit Reply to every question like that.... Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
