I'm afraid you guys are witty! Good on you. Rob, you're right - and Alan, you're right too. BRA-VO.
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote: > "Robert Berman" <berma...@cfl.rr.com> wrote > > The war between bottom posters and top posters has been long, arduous, >> and most often incredibly silly. >> > > It has, I agree but there is a very real difference in that gratuitous top > posting does actually become unreadable if not done very carefully. > And it also encorages people to leave the whole previous thread in > place which is very naughty for those who pay for ther internet > access by the byte! (Or those whose mail server implements > space quotas!) > > But if a general comment is being made that does not need to refer > to specific quotations from the earlier rtext then I have no problem > with top posting. Provided all but a small context quote is left below. > But please don't send me 3 pages of text to just add two sentences > at the top!!! > > > I simply propose that the only requirement to communications here is >> that replies and questions be well formulated, courteous, and reasonably >> intelligent. >> > > Ah but there's the rub, what is "well formatted"? :-) > > > If there are going to be arguments pertaining to the posts, let them be >> over content and not placement. >> > > When you are trying to respond to hundreds of emails a day a > few top posted messages can cause severe headaches. Personally I > just ignore anything that has top posting that is hard to read, I don't > have > time to unscramble it nor to waste time asking the poster to desist. > If they post scrambled mail it doesn't get answered... > > So its not quite a case of the "color of the bikeshed" because this one > does make a very real difference to the usability of the medium and > to the success of the message in reaching its full audience. > > In most cases it doesn't hurt much but in longer threads it does. > So, please folks, be sensitive to your readers. > > Alan G. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > -- Regards, Lloyd
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