On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:11:32 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:58:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Padding with zeros makes it even more useful:
> > > >
> > > > [PATCH 00/17]
> > > > [PATCH 01/17]
> > > > ...
> > > > [PATCH 17/17]
> > >
> > > To be honest I utterly hate that convention
> >
> > It's so they'll correctly alphasort at the recipient's end.
>
> I suspect most mailers sort by date and not by subject anyway.
>
Emails arrive out-of-order.
I used to have a `sleep 10' in my patch-bomb script to fix that, but half
an hour is too long to be sitting there hoping the DSL stays up, the kernel
stays up and that the familial hair-drier+iron+air-conditioner conspiracy
doesn't strike.
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