Thomas Gleixner <tglx <at> linutronix.de> writes: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > Nice work Thomas! > > > > -- Steve > > -- > > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > This sig is obviously a total failure. Brevity would have been a > mail with a single line saying: "Nice work Thomas!" > > If you insist on having a sig, then please change it to something > sensible like: > > "This affront against netiquette is caused by PEBTAO" > > PEBTAO is the Web 2.0 advancement of PEBKAC: > > Problem Exists Between Touchscreen and Occiput > > I know that you just wanted to taunt me after our IRC conversation, > but seriously the amount of horribly formatted mails on LKML starts to > be annoying. > > If it would be only the "Sent from my .* phone" mails, it would be > easy to filter out in .procmailrc. The bad news is that this habit of > top posting and miserable quoting spreads like cancer and I have no > intention to cope with that anymore. Having to scroll down several > pages to find the content (if any) of a reply is equally annoying as > reading a top post with no context. > > ... > Can we please go back to the established working model of keeping > stuff on mailing lists and follow the well established netiquette > instead of spreading those absurdities? It's amazing how for instance Gmail has the power to almost transform normally decent people (like Linus) into top-posting morons. Another offender is Apple-Mail, whose implementors have apparently never heard of line-breaks. The result are mails that are impossible to read, because each line continues to the right edge of the screen. I would recommend t-prot, http://www.escape.de/~tolot/mutt/ . It tries to bring badly formated mails back to sanity. (a line like: set display_filter="t-prot --bigq -cemt -Mmutt --pgp-move" in .muttrc is sufficient) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
