From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JmiEa-0000tc-2F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:30:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 31AA9E062C; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (66-191-143-114.static.roch.mn.charter.com [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E6CE062C for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECE1594DA for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:29:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:29:57 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] you have cruft in /proc remove it Message-ID: <20080417232957.39348bb4@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <339795.48473.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <4807C004.60405@googlemail.com> <339795.48473.qm@web31701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 58f7bb1b-7a89-4772-883e-627cb6586da5 X-Archives-Hash: 2efa77056deb8f09d29a61d7238013f2 On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:29:55 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler 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 ... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list