From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-92371-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1LmRGJ-0005dH-MG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:27:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20AA1E0495; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:27:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC3E9E0495 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:27:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so7024709gxk.10 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:27:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=t31uA7nCH1cIG7z+bHB/dTgdPioH6ULxxuZa0w/wuIc=; b=B68OeH7OCrN77SZBCBKBoIXtIzFhgH5M/iwrO4H4G/55itRwVNPC1GMAvyZQJTSdAY cORYF80eLreNXvyc/ICqA0v05X3YgEA4uWMkAqnRsBe4ns2lY0SebUOni4KWUhZGM2p5 tggGxmZVlkmT9r9BQapm57MUVRx8mU41BnRos= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ln4hPURLxr4yln3AAEZ3re6SPLtjpgwuhZYJt02bVsRGkmnAk0BkAclxZcF+bcy0ur u2B9M43dNHTOpPrv2qffsuSOyUkuZhyKUD/vyRSdLDqQn4UAVexEXhFNnTfFzLgzQhIS N+QiXDr+97SfCcyJr5CPsjOj/3E7wtlr2B2x4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.39.2 with SMTP id r2mr16960967ybj.82.1237980429645; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:27:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49CA10FA.2090804@gmail.com> References: <200903211917.56523.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> <49C6FF71.3010309@gmail.com> <1237779541.4874.1.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <49C82224.7000502@gmail.com> <1237862045.4298.8.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <DF61AD30-E533-4691-9EA7-14715801D380@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20090325015434.2a099083@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49C9A9E5.8010804@gmail.com> <20090325104008.63a1d67c@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <49CA10FA.2090804@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <1ff2d1450903250427n7e44eef4x3b7e3dad4d054504@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? From: James Skinner <james.skinner@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4045802f-4e88-4f13-a003-a459bc33d9ae X-Archives-Hash: ba422843727687fd7b585290bd3c5a39 Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped. On 3/25/09, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:57 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> I don't mind top posting in private emails but not on the list. Who is >>> it with that signature with the backward questions about top posting? >>> >> >> This one? >> >> 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 on usenet and in e-mail? >> >> or this one? >> >> Q: Why is top-posting evil? >> A: backwards read don't humans because >> >> Both have been in my tagfile for years. >> >> >> > > The top one is the one I was thinking about. Funny thing is, it took me > a couple reads the first time to figure out it was backwards. It really > didn't make much sense. > > I do like the last one tho. That was cute. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- Sent from my mobile device James Skinner james.skinner@gmail.com