From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>,
linux <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lock_kernel twice possible ?
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:00:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0510200259140.27683@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4356BAAD.2010409@tmr.com>
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
> ~~~~~~~
>
> 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
>
A4: top-posting is for pointy haired managers.
Sorry! ;)
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-20 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-15 7:04 li nux
2005-10-15 7:33 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-15 7:38 ` li nux
2005-10-15 7:47 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-10-19 21:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-20 7:00 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2005-10-15 7:58 ` Mitchell Blank Jr
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