[Fsf-friends] Something About SLYNUX

Mahesh T. Pai paivakil@sancharnet.in
Sun Mar 6 15:14:20 IST 2005


This is top posting. 

Ankit Malik said on Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:38:05PM +0530,:
 > 
 > what does top posting mean?
 > 
 > err... btw regarding that 13thingie, actually GMAIL lists all the
 > emails and its replies in the form of a conversation. so the
 > conversation starts from 1 to 2 and so on.. so that conversation was
 > the 13th one and that sounds unlucky ;-) so i posted a blank thread to
 > make the no. of conversations to 14.
 > 
 > sounds superstitous? sure it does!

Nah. Just stupid. Not everyone on  this list uses gmail; and not every
one knows that that was the 13th message.

Btw. this is bottom posting, and  the proper way of replying to e-mail
posts. 

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