On Tuesday 23 December 2003 22:59, you wrote: > I met him a few years ago at LinuxWorld. He's a nice guy in person. > According to ... > he's fully aware of reality, but the linux kernel developers aren't: So he not only refuses to deal with reality, he blames it on the kernel developers? Sounds like _they_ may have straightened out both their own and his own problems. > On a completely unrelated note, I ran into this while browsing last night: > > > > > Because it messes up the order in which people > > > > > normally read text. > > > > > > > > Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > > > > > > Yes. > > > > Is top-posting bad? As a regular reader of the list, I find I am more often frustrated by having to scan all the way down a post to find a comment at the botttom. When a thread has blossomed in my absense, I usually try to find the original post and follow it sequentially instead of trying to glean it from a mass of mis-formatted quotes.