On Jul 23, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/15 14:59, Jon Paris wrote: > >> I am not familiar with the term “top post” > > See this wikipedia article which describes in detail all the > alternatives along with their relative merits. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style > > including this commonly seen example: > > Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > >> Top-posting. > >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > Which with bottom posting becomes the more readable: > > >>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > >> Top-posting. > > Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > > Most technical mailing lists and newsgroups prefer interleaved > posting where replies to individual points in a message are > placed just under the relevant part of the message. Just as > importantly all irrelevant parts of the message should be deleted. > > The common business practice of top posting was encouraged by > Microsoft Outlook and results in many megabytes of wasted > disk-space due to long threads of mail being posted multiple > times in every reply to the thread. It used to drive me mad > when I was a corporate wage slave... :-) > > -- > Alan G > Author of the Learn to Program web site > http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ > http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld > Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor I’ve been posting to many different sites for twenty plus years and never had this kind of complaint. I can’t even find a way of telling my email client (Mac) to do it the way you want. Right now I’m manually changing every response to comply with the required etiquette. Personally I find it more useful to see the response and then look below for the content. But that’s just me. I will try not to bother you again. Jon Paris www.partner400.com www.SystemiDeveloper.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
