[CentOS] rsyslog.conf

Thu Jul 23 16:18:48 UTC 2015
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 23.07.2015 um 18:06 schrieb "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>:
> 
> On Thu, July 23, 2015 10:45 am, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> 
>> The main reason actually is chronological order.  But not just for the
>> reply .. but for IN-LINE posting.
>> 
>> In a discussion where you need to make points in-line and where you only
>> need some of and not all of the other posts, something that happens
>> frequently on mailing lists, it is very much easier to read that type of
>> collaborated message in chronological order.
>> 
>> I mean, you don't read a book or a newspaper article or a blog post from
>> bottom to top, right?  Why would you read communications from bottom to
>> top?  And it is not really even bottom to top.  If you take 4 emails of
>> 10 lines each (and 40 lines total)  .. it is 75% down to 100% (original
>> mail)... then up to 50% and read down to 75% (2nd mail), then up to 25%
>> and read down to 50%, then up to 0% and read down to 25%.  What if
>> someone made you read blog posts that way, or books or newspaper articles?
>> 
> 
> OK, the shortest I can re-formulate your message is: on mail lists we are
> collectively writing the book for someone else to read (much less
> communicating with each other in real time ;-) Any accepted convention is
> better than no convention: save everybody's time. Suits me (as far as mail
> lists are concerned).


I consider email as an asynchronous communication, 
therefore "book style convention" is recommended.

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