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
