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From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  [ot] you have cruft in /proc remove it
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:29:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080417232957.39348bb4@pascal.spore.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <339795.48473.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > First: Don't top post!
> > 
> 
> Big whoop! The two posts are tiny -- it's easy to see
> at a glance which is the original and which the reply.
> 

What's with people making the biggest deal out of this?  The ubuntu
mailing lists just had a huge discussion about it.  
 
I have seen the signature (something like this)

A: Because it puts the answers before the questions.  
Q: Why is top-posting bad?

But I think it goes more like this: 

Q: Why is top-posting bad?
A: You said, "Why is top-posting bad?"  
   Top posting is bad because ... 

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17 15:37 [gentoo-user] you have cruft in /proc remove it Helmut Jarausch
2008-04-17 21:00 ` maxim wexler
2008-04-17 21:24   ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-04-17 22:15     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-17 22:25       ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-04-17 22:29     ` maxim wexler
2008-04-18  4:29       ` Dan Farrell [this message]
2008-04-18  6:47       ` [gentoo-user] [OT] Top-post with full quote (was: you have cruft in /proc remove it) Michael Schmarck

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