> Paul Ivanov wrote: > > ... But I just came across a wonderfully short signature from > > Rick Moen, and thought I'd pass it along: > > > Cheers, A: Yes. > > Rick Moen > Q: Are you sure? > > rick@linuxmafia >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of > > conversation. > > .com McQ! (4x80) >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > > This is cute, and makes a good point, but misses the bigger issue: > most interesting technical threads are not a series of linear, simple > one-liners. Bottom posting is obviously the way to go for that. They > are long, with multiple points, and comments on the middle parts, not > just the end, and different people all commenting on the same post. It > simply does not end up a neat linear conversation anyway. niether pure > bottom posting nor pure top posting works well.
Full agreed, again, so I'm a little puzzled why you say it misses the point, since I started off that post agreeing with you: > Chris Barker - NOAA Federal, on 2013-04-04 09:01, wrote: > > Which is why I advocate interspersed posting. > > This. (with heavy snipping). My inclusion of Rick's signature was intended to just be cute, just as you perceived it. best, -- Paul Ivanov 314 address only used for lists, off-list direct email at: http://pirsquared.org | GPG/PGP key id: 0x0F3E28F7 _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
