I agree. For people who carefully trim quoted text, in-line is nice to follow, but when someone leaves the full previous message in their reply, as I am currently doing, top-posting saves those following the whole thread from ready a LOT of material multiple times. If I removed all the quoted text below, the net.nazi's would not care, but because I included it, I will catch heat for doing this. -- Michael -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jdow Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:43 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: [OT] TOP-POSTING What you did and I am doing in reply because I am human and can adapt to fellow humans is called top posting. If you'd posted your comments inline and below the signature instead that is what the other folks who are pedantic about correct behavior and intolerant of differences insist is the one and only true way to post email. I sometimes get nasty with them. Bottom posting is often a somewhat easier to read. So it is recommended. {^_-} Joanne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Yep" <myep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sorry I do not know what top posting is. I run Thunderbird 1.5.0.4, > and this is the default setup with a signature. > I this the incorrect format ? > > Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Guillermo Garron schrieb: >> >>> denyhosts >>> will do the job for you! >>> >>> :) >>> regards, >>> Guillermo. >>> >> Guillermo, >> >> though using gmail with a default, please learn to not top-post and >> especially to avoid unnecessary quoting. >> >> denyhosts does not use iptables, but tcp-wrappers. >> >> If it is just about SSH login attempts by script kids I can say from >> long experience that changing the SSHD port to something non default >> (so far) keeps them at the gates, means no special blocking setup is >> required. Though it can be a good decision to use pam_abl to cover >> other cases and protect all services using PAM (as Nicolas already >> mentioned). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
