Lindsay Haisley writes: > On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 14:01 +0100, Roel Wagenaar wrote: > > And maybe you could stop TOP-posting?
That's a bit quick on the trigger. I don't recall ever seeing a top-post from "Tanstaafl" before, for one thing, and that moniker has been around for as long as I can remember. See also "handhelds" (below). > In my humble opinion, any post that's less that a visual page in length > is more conveniently read if it's top-posted, especially if it is in > reference to a much longer quoted post. "Don't top-post" is usually short for "don't top-post and trim the quoted material". If a top-post is really more readable, I'd question whether you need *any* quoted material. (Yeah, I know, you only get options like *not* quoting if you use an Emacs-based MUA, and of course Emacs is listed as a form of torture next to "waterboarding" in the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war....) So I can see your point, but I think if you're going to have a rule, interline posting is by far the better rule for lists like this one. > I know it's considered bad list netiquette, but from a practical > point of view, I consider it the more convenient format. Depends on what you're used to. See http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/IntroSES/socsys.html Also, the abysmally bad UIs of handheld devices' MUAs are turning the tide in favor of top-posting (or, for the really perverse, bottom-posting). ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
