fedora 14 & compiz

Roger K. Wells ROGER.K.WELLS at saic.com
Thu Jan 6 15:47:19 UTC 2011


On 01/06/2011 10:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 09:17 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> I guess I am required to add the admonition of not to top post.
> Giving the OP the benefit of the doubt (as a non-native English speaker)
> he may not understand what is meant by top-posting.
>
how could the OP (Original Poster) top post?  His is the only input at 
that point, top and bottom.
And he is a native English speaker.  I think you meant the first 
responder, not OP?
rkw
> Top-posting means replying to a quoted message *above* the quoted
> material instead of below it (or in some cases intermixed with it). It
> leads to a confusing mishmash of quotes replying to quotes, especially
> with long threads. People are free to do what they want in private
> conversations, and the corporate email culture in some companies
> encourages top-posting (plus some broken email clients such as
> Blackberries make it very difficult to avoid), but on Internet mailing
> lists it's widely frowned on, and this list explicitly discourages it in
> the Guidelines quoted in every single message posted to the list
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines) so please don't
> do it.
>
> poc
>


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