[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] minor cleanup

Diego Biurrun diego
Sat Apr 7 19:07:57 CEST 2007


On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:59:14AM -0700, Nicholas T wrote:
> On 4/7/07, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 09:47:39AM -0700, Nicholas T wrote:
> >> [...]
> >
> >Please repeat after me:
> >I shall not top-post again on the ffmpeg-devel mailing list.
> >
> my client (gmail) does it automatically.

No, it doesn't.  You write the text, not your mail client.

> Why is it such a big issue?

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 on usenet and in e-mail?

Plus, it's the custom around here and clearly stated everywhere.

Diego




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