OT: Top Posting

[Cliff Wells]

Does this explain it?


On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 14:28, David LeBlanc wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-list-admin at python.org
> > [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Wojtek Walczak
> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:47
> > To: python-list at python.org
> > Subject: Re: ternary operator
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > ...but, well, in almost any case I'd use while loop, and what's _POOR_
> > for me is top-posting on Usenet rather than using i=0;while ...:... :)
> >
> 
> I've never quite understood why it's considered rude to top-post, especially
> given that most people quote emails verbatim in their reply. I already read
> that, and I want the new stuff - why scroll past the old stuff to get to the
> new stuff? It does make sense to embed responses when you're responding to
> something point by point, but that's not always the form of a reply.
> 
> I suspect that if people trimmed email responses, usenet/ml bytes would drop
> drastically. I wonder what the spammie hit rate on ">" is? ;)
> 
> Dave LeBlanc
> Seattle, WA USA
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