Carroll, Barry wrote:
Greetings:
Personally, I don't think top-posting is the most annoying newsgroup
habit. I think it's making a big fuss about minor inconveniences.
One of the nicest things about being human is the amazing flexibility of
our brains. For example, if a block of text
::CLAP CLAP::
thank you!
I have been in the newsgroups for over 12 years and I never cared about the
top/bottom post silliness. All I care about is that the message is clearly
written. Everything else is doggerel.
-Original Message-
From: Carroll, Barry
Personally, I don't
On Friday 19 January 2007 22:51, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or perhaps I should say:
.snoitnevnoc
hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM ton
,puorgswen egaugnal hsilgnE na no er'ew ,segaugnal hcus era ereht fi neve
tuB
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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| My thanks to Aahz and the others who responded. I also did some
| Googling on my own. I found out that top-posting is the norm in the
| e-mail world. Bottom- and inline-posting are the norm in the newsgroup
| world.
On 2007-01-20, Nick Maclaren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| My thanks to Aahz and the others who responded. I also did some
| Googling on my own. I found out that top-posting is the norm in the
| e-mail world. Bottom- and
Dane Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
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On Friday 19 January 2007 22:51, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or perhaps I should say:
.snoitnevnoc
hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM
ton ,puorgswen egaugnal
Paul Rubin schreef:
No. Top posting has always been an aberrance. It first appeared in
Usenet when Usenet (a word whose etymology comes from Unix and
network) started attracting Microsoft Windows users, who were in the
habit of using Windows products that top-posted. That happened fairly
Carroll, Barry schreef:
Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
to see it. You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
When I was last a regular Usenet citizen the Internet
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I don't think top-posting is the most annoying newsgroup
habit. I think it's making a big fuss about minor inconveniences. =20
Thing is, nobody will ignore your posts for following standard Usenet
conventions, but
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Subject: Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I don't think top-posting is the most annoying newsgroup
habit. I think it's making a big fuss about minor inconveniences.
=20
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
| mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
| to see it. You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
|
On 1/19/07, Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
to see it.
For what (very little) it's worth, see RFC 1855.
--
Jerry
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
to see it. You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
When I was
At Friday 19/1/2007 18:43, Carroll, Barry wrote:
Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
to see it.
There are some guidelines, like RFC 1855 (not a real standard, or
enforced in any way):
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From: Aahz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:29 PM
To: python-list@python.org
Subject: Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, can
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:20:26 -0800, Carroll, Barry wrote:
It took me about 3 seconds to realize that Mr. D'Aprano' QA session was
laid out bottom-to-top instead of top-to-bottom. After that, it made
perfect sense.
Three seconds, compared to about thirty milliseconds if it were written in
the
I should write a python script to read this. :)
.snoitnevnoc
hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM ton ,puorgswen
egaugnal hsilgnE na no er'ew ,segaugnal hcus era ereht fi neve tuB
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Carroll, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When I was last a regular Usenet citizen the Internet was new, GUI
interfaces were experimental and the World Wide Web didn't exist yet.
Newsreader software was text-based. Top-posting was the common
practice, because it was the most convenient.
No.
Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or perhaps I should say:
.snoitnevnoc
hsilgnE tpada )ylbissop revenehw( dluohs ew os dna ,naitraM ton ,puorgswen
egaugnal hsilgnE na no er'ew ,segaugnal hcus era ereht fi neve tuB
First I thought it was Welsh or Cornish or something.
Then it was
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