Top-posting [Was: Installing with apt-get]

[Troy Piggins]

* Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> :
> On 20/06/06, Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo at sjoeboo.com> wrote:
> >thunderbird is just that, only referred to by another package. in this
> >case, its 'mozilla-thunderbird' your looking for.
> >
> >sudo apt-get install mozilla-thunderbird
> >
> >give that a try.
> >
> >and you can search via commmand line with
> >
> >apt-cache search "search string"
> 
> Thanks, I was using apt-get search instead of apt-cache search. Now I know.
> 
> Side note, is it proper to top-post on this list? On other mailing
> lists that I subscribe to they would kill a top-poster, but I see it
> happen on this list quite a bit. Any opinions on the subject are
> appreciated. Thanks.

I think some of the posts here are made via a web forum front-end at
ubuntuforums.com.  It can make it pretty hard to follow some
threads, since there is little or no quoting etc.

I certainly prefer bottom-posting, whether it's posted via email or
forum.  I can't be alone in that.

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Troy Piggins
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