Python 3 is killing Python

Kevin Walzer kw at codebykevin.com
Tue Jul 15 18:30:15 EDT 2014


"Top posting" is the practice of responding to an e-mail thread by 
putting your response at the top of the text you are quoting. It's 
standard practice in the corporate world...

On 7/15/14, 6:13 PM, Abhiram R wrote:
> a) What is "top post"?Â

...but  Unix/newsgroup ettiquette says that it's gauche to do this, 
because it presents an unacceptable cognitive burden to the user trying 
to catch the context of the thread by forcing them to read your reply 
first, before they read the preceding quoted comments.

--Kevin
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