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 ) id 1Lypqu-0003Au-T1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:08:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78CF1E0A7C; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com (mail-bw0-f223.google.com [209.85.218.223]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33797E0A7C for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so578159bwz.34 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:08:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=pPHt3nAp19Mdry//9rMjxxpSSogSU6zruLrciPUaCbs=; b=srGNjcl5qbpjDpS8XVHkR7F6AbqiOuyBJeyp8x2/ohrYgPRJnoI1tgfICEHmiO2atQ C1VXpxyuvGUShGe6brg6aq9Z6S2h59ARHUGXJ858a3Abx7fJ+U0TcW6txd5HJSsFkXrq ZeTjoXbH8ePdbxzfPLRtLagIm3wpnBzcwAgCY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=AGKhFzgTiHR7gePduXhdAihsKgCgWerhJ/7oRx5HoUI7oAn1KmA1DmfN0DC+G/YZkQ fj22eWy7RDe8Z55DHsk9h0luEFanQwNW5WjX4A1/rFG2gZ2w2gXXf6y1KE8+7gISEjco zMqUnm7qQpXZHnbBl8w8XMka5tfYWBduP7P8M= Received: by 10.204.120.70 with SMTP id c6mr6547187bkr.144.1240934890425; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 27sm5195295bwz.19.2009.04.28.09.08.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:08:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AUTO: Martin Schrodi ist =?iso-8859-1?q?au=DFer?= Haus. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:08:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.90 (Linux/2.6.28.9r4-tuxonice3.1; KDE/4.2.70; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090428164347.4bf85a60@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <49F7260D.2050204@allenjb.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <49F7260D.2050204@allenjb.me.uk> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200904281808.08429.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6002ffeb-98cf-4e34-abff-d99bb1e4fdf1 X-Archives-Hash: 41693a3d09615aedfbec323966f6ffd9 On Dienstag 28 April 2009, AllenJB wrote: > The problem is that there's no consensus. I top post because I think > it's much more sensible. Others think otherwise. I live with it. > > It's the people who refuse to live with differences of opinion that are > the real problem. no, there is a consensus: top posting is bad. It is stupid for technical and semantic reasons. The bad things are people like you 'invading' a mailing list and refuse to adhere to the common standards there.