[Python-Dev] Top-posting on this list

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Oct 11 13:34:53 CEST 2009


Greg Ewing <greg.ewing <at> canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> 
> That's no reason to squander it, though. Quoting the entire
> message every time makes the size of the thread grow as
> O(n**2), and makes things harder to read as well. That's
> just senseless.

+1. It's always annoying to skim through a three-page quoted message just to
read a two-line reply. The problem is not electronic bandwidth, but visual
bandwidth.

Regards

Antoine.




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