Re: lock_kernel twice possible ?

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 16:28:49 EST


Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
On 10/15/05, li nux <lnxluv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry, couldn't get what you want to say.
Can you please elaborate.


http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/top-posting.txt
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html

The whole post fit on one screen and he was not continuing the conversation, he was commenting on your post as a whole. I think you're being a bit pedantic here.

I don't think his reply failed your criteria, it wasn't overlong, it didn't break a flowing discussion, and no backward reading was required.

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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

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last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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