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From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 05/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with
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On Thu, 23 May 2019, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 9:18 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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