On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote: > On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote: >> > >From Wikipedia: >> > >> > """ >> > Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from >> > persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in >> > communities that date to Usenet's early days. Until the mid-90s, >> > top-posting was unknown and interleaved posting an obvious standard >> > that all net.newcomers had to learn. Among the most vehement >> > communities are those in the Usenet comp.lang hierarchy, especially >> > comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. Top-posting is more tolerated on the >> > alt hierarchy. Newer online participants, especially those with >> > limited experience of Usenet, tend to be less sensitive to arguments >> > about posting style. >> > """ >> >> BS > > why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, [...]
It is mostly a sensitiveness issue .. which is why I found Wikipedia's quote relevant. Indeed the words "vehement", "tolerated", "less sensitive", etc.. should give a clue. -srid _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
