From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Zwiegers Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:23:31 +0000 Subject: Re: modules.pcimap Message-Id: <41EDFCE3.7090704@eagle.co.za> List-Id: References: <41EB89A5.7040706@multitech.co.in> In-Reply-To: <41EB89A5.7040706@multitech.co.in> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Jan Zwiegers mid-posted: Greg KH wrote: >On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:35:28PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > >>?QAF emos ot dedda eb siht t'ndluohS >> Ok I give up! >Why? Like anyone who top posts would take the time to read a FAQ? :) > In this is case it is Frequently Questions to Answers or FQA by greg k-h:) > >greg k-h > > I reputable study about top-posting and mid-posting or point-inserted-posting (or PIP) has shown that mid-posting to be the most understandable solution with smaller email responses or queries and answers to queries, comments etc. However when large complicated email letters gets formed by a vast amount of response, especially when more than one source replies, the mid-posting technique becomes unclear, confusing and cluttered. It also becomes difficult to merge all response into one letter. So to conclude in a one-liner-answer-to-question kind of response, mid-posting is better, but in a letter type response top-posting is the better option. Cheers Jan ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel