On Thu, 23 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:18 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Also: > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > A: Top-posting. > > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > > > A: No. > > Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? > > > > http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top > > I come from the bottom-posting tradition and resisted top-posting for > years, so I am pleased that top-posting is not appropriate for this > list. (At least one other person reading this list may remember that > the Harvey Birdman Rule [1] (in the process of being rebranded the > Hindering Backchannels Rule) had a very strong anti-top-posting > component in its original version, but this proved to be excessively > harsh in practice and was modified appropriately.) > > I assume it's okay to put the "Reviewed-by:" at the top of the reply though? You got lucky with that one. The script which picks up the Reviewed-by tags is not biased vs. top/bottom posting. But now that you are mentioning it, I surely could train it to detect top posting and to send nasty reminders :) Thanks, tglx
