OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <mailman.2917.1169243036.32031.python-list at python.org>,
"Carroll, Barry" <Barry.Carroll at psc.com> writes:
|> 
|> Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
|> mandates against top-posting.  This is not sarcasm; I would really like
|> to see it.  You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
|> When I was last a regular Usenet citizen the Internet was new, GUI
|> interfaces were experimental and the World Wide Web didn't exist yet.
|> Newsreader software was text-based.  Top-posting was the common
|> practice, because it was the most convenient: you didn't have to page
|> through an arbitrarily large number of messages, most of which you'd
|> already read umpteen times, to get to the new stuff you were interested
|> in. =20

When I started to use this sort of thing, in the early 1970s, top
posting was already deprecated.

And top posting is only more convenient if you are merely adding a
"me, too" or equivalent, and not responding in detail.

But you have been told both of those before.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.