Re: firewall performance throughput between Linux and OpenBSD

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:40:11 -0500

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 08:58:21 +0800, sam wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:53:12 +0800, sam wrote:
>>
>> a top-post.
>>
>> Sam, if you keep doing that I'm going to killfile you.
>>
> what is wrong?

Top-posting is illogical and impolite. It puts the answer before the
question for one thing. It is contrary to RFC-1855 for another.

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

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