Re: [LAU] Posting style (was: Re: Autotuner for Linux?)

From: Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 12 2009 - 18:43:21 EET

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Jorge Salgueiro wrote:

> Top post is a question of accesibility to the blind. They shouldn't
> have to listen to 30 posts every time they want to contribute. So if
> you don't what no linux Stevie wonder to post in this list is your
> decision. But I don't agree with it.

Part of bottom-posting is trimming the quoted content so there are not
thirty previous posts to skip over. Sometimes I don't even quote at all
if the subject line contains enough context that a reader ought to be
able to get it.

(Somebody already previously said all this though...)

-- 
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+ UNIX Systems Admin	 +  banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago	 +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. +  Shakespeare.  Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
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