Top-posting &c. (was Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8)

[Mark Lawrence]

On 22/08/2012 07:25, Bob Martin wrote:
> in 679182 20120821 181439 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:33 +0200, Alex Strickland <sscc at mweb.co.za>
>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>>> On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote:
>>>
>>>> As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
>>>
>>> I too, but I'd prefer something top-posted than have to skip through 38
>>> pages of quoted e-mail to get to a (generally) 1 liner at the bottom.
>>
>> Doesn't help me though... Agent shows quoted material as blue, fresh
>> text as black.
>>
>> I tend to not see a one-liner at the top (since it is next to the
>> attribution line) and if the rest of the page is all blue text I hit
>> page down... and down, down, down... looking for black text... Then end
>> up going "Wha', where's the new stuff?" and having to scroll back up to
>> find a one-liner cuddling up with the attribution line.
>
> Yep, and the only solution is for everyone to top-post.
>

The only solution is for people to use common sense.  At least one snag 
is that Voltaire said common sense is not so common.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.