On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 12:25 AM Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 5/5/20 3:32 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 07:41:58PM +0300, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > >> Confirming an issue is top-posting? > >> > > > > Any post where the reply comes before the item to which you are > > replying or commenting is top posting. > > > >> I didn't know that, and for that I apologize... > >> > > > > So, here you have again top-posted by putting the text you are > > replying to below your reply : > > > >> On Tue, 5 May 2020, 7:39 pm Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev, < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> On 5/5/20 8:57 AM, Firas Khalil Khana via lfs-dev wrote: > >>>> I can confirm this as well, and specifying > >>>> "PKGCONFIGDIR=/usr/lib/pkgconfig" fixes the problem. > >>> > >>> Please stop top posting on the mailing lists. > > > In long replies it is sometimes polite to include introductory text > > *after* the "On some day at some time, someone wrote" header, but > > most text (even things as minimal as '+1' or 'me too') should still > > go after the text to which you are replying. > > > > Unfortunately, gmail takes the microsoft approach and makes it > > inconvenient to do this in its browser interface. > > To be honest, I top post for individual messages when the recient > expects it. The issue in top posting is that it doesn't work well for > mailing lists, especially for threads with multiple posters. > > It is also good practice to delete portions of the message that are > irrelevant to the reply. > > -- Bruce > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page
I deeply apologize for the misunderstanding that happened. I confused the terms "top-posting" with "bumping" and I thought that "top-posting" meant to be the final/last person to reply to a certain ticket (since I've replied to multiple tickets at the same time).
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