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. |> 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: you didn't have to page |> through an arbitrarily large number of messages, most of which you'd |> already read umpteen times, to get to the new stuff you were interested |> in. =20
When I started to use this sort of thing, in the early 1970s, top posting was already deprecated. And top posting is only more convenient if you are merely adding a "me, too" or equivalent, and not responding in detail. But you have been told both of those before. Regards, Nick Maclaren. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
