On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote: > I haven't since a convincing argument either way on the topic why should > newer folks > adopt or not adopt a Usenet sensibility. IMO the usenet "pattern" is simply > fighting > a losing battle (one I gave up ages ago before shifting to top posting).
this is interesting. I never knew there were *any* arguments for top posting - apart from the default 'it is the easiest way of doing things'. Could you point out these arguments? > > > Others, unfortunately fail to accept it; they are simply too lazy to > > be courteous to others. I would blame the webmail clients for that > > though. They are simply not smart enough to put the cursor in the > > right place (which is below the quote). Thunderbird does that nicely. > > Bottom posting is exactly that - a courtesy. But it is also a courtesy > which is increasingly hard to offer as most people use top posting. bottom posting is worse than top posting - interleaved posting in context is what we are talking about > I suspect courtesy really extends both ways - and I choose to top post by > default (to be courteous to the maximum number of readers) and also be > ambivalent to the top or bottom posting - I will read an interesting > message either ways and not worry about whether the sender was courteous to > me. The simple reason is that the message matters to me and as I reader, at > least I do not have issues with the sender formatting it the way he or she > chooses it - it really is largely irrelevant. anyway thanks for interleaving your posts here - I personally appreciate the trouble you have taken -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
