In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carroll, Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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
Funny, I've been on Usenet for more than fifteen years, continuously (and long-windedly -- but that's another matter) and I've never seen a Usenet group where top-posting was standard. Anyway, here's a good resource: http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
