Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:29:17 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: lock_kernel twice possible ? |
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Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 10/15/05, li nux <lnxluv@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Sorry, couldn't get what you want to say. >>Can you please elaborate. > > > http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/top-posting.txt > http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
The whole post fit on one screen and he was not continuing the conversation, he was commenting on your post as a whole. I think you're being a bit pedantic here.
I don't think his reply failed your criteria, it wasn't overlong, it didn't break a flowing discussion, and no backward reading was required.
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Q: Why is top-posting evil?
A1: Because top-posters tend to leave the entirety of the email to which they are replying intact, so the email gets too long.
A2: Because we prefer to use bottom-posting, and it is *extremely* hard to maintain a coherently flowing email conversation when some of the participants are bottom-posting and some are top-posting.
A3: backwards read don't humans because
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