Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751779AbVJTHAw (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:00:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751780AbVJTHAw (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:00:52 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.55]:1478 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751779AbVJTHAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:00:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:00:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain To: Bill Davidsen cc: Coywolf Qi Hunt , linux Subject: Re: lock_kernel twice possible ? In-Reply-To: <4356BAAD.2010409@tmr.com> Message-ID: References: <2cd57c900510150033o7bd44608vdc57cb32e335b933@mail.gmail.com> <20051015073803.26937.qmail@web33311.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <2cd57c900510150047y4108a493k859f86bf1324468@mail.gmail.com> <4356BAAD.2010409@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 804 Lines: 29 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/