25 Mar
2008
25 Mar
'08
1:42 p.m.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
In message 4CD35CD1F8085945B597F80EEC8942138A24A8@exc01.bk.prodrive.nl you wrote:
Signed-off-by: Pieter Voorthuijsen pv@prodrive.nl
Your subject line (which will become part of the commit message) is seriously corrupted in terms of whitespace.
And the second most annoying thing is full-quoting, which you did again.
Please read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html before posting again, and please do NOT quote such stuff when posting patches.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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