[Tutor] Stolen thread: Bottom folk vs. toppers was trouble using 2to3.py

[Robert Berman]

The war between bottom posters and top posters has been long, arduous,
and most often incredibly silly. There have been written group rules
mandating one over the other. Oft times these rules have doomed the
group. 

I have used both approaches most often favoring top posting only because
my mail program is set to reply from the top. True, it can be set to
reply from the bottom and I can pick and choose as I see fit, but I
usually let the program dictate.

The reality is, bottom posters are not blessed by god and top posters
are not bottom feeders. 

I simply propose that the only requirement to communications here is
that replies and questions be well formulated, courteous, and reasonably
intelligent. We are not 'Facebooks' and we hopefully do not condone cute
rudeness and sophmoric attempts at vast intellect. 

I must say that the answers to my questions have almost always been
incredibly well constructed  and concisely and clearly presented. I
almost never notice their placement within the post. 

If there are going to be arguments pertaining to the posts, let them be
over content and not placement.

Thanks to all who participate in this group.

Robert Berman


On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 12:10 -0600, Luke Paireepinart wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Dave Angel <davea at ieee.org> wrote:
>         (Erasing entire history, since you both top-posted, and it's
>         too confusing)
> I was under the impression that you were supposed to top-post unless
> you were referring to a specific thing someone said, in which case you
> quoted it, much like you do on a forum.
> Is that not how it works?
> I'd personally rather people top-posted unless they're specifically
> referencing something, otherwise there's a huge tree of quotiness that
> I have to scroll past before I can see what they're trying to say.
> Maybe that's just me, though.  No one else seems to mind having to hit
> "reply to all" to send a message to the list either.
> Hopefully Google will succeed in their mission to replace e-mail with
> Wave and all messages will be in context and there will be no need for
> quoting one way or the other.
> -Luke
> 
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