Q: What's the second most annoying thing to do on Usenet? A: Fail to properly trim quotes.
"Dan Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Fuzzyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Dan Perl wrote: >>> "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> > "Dan Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >> "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>> >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> A: What's the most obnoxious thing on Usenet? >>> >>> Q: topposting. >>> >> What is "Jeopardy", Alex? You got your Q&A mixed up. >>> > No, the Q&A in that order demonstrate what's wrong with top >> posting. >>> Yeah, you're right. >> If it's a short reply to a long post - in context - top posting is >> often *significantly * less annoying...... When replying to a long post, you should trim the post to the relevant parts. This goes a long way towards solving that problem. Even if the relevant parts are rather long, it's still better to not top post, because that'll leave things out of order for replies. > I'm not sure whether you were attacking me too (am I the "little mind"?) or > supporting me, Fuzzy. Anyway, I think that Mike Meyer was more annoyed by > my jab at US politics than by my top posting. But it was safer for him to > pick on the latter. You're wrong. I don't even remember seeing any comment about american politics in your post. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
