> -----Original Message----- > From: Aahz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 3:29 PM > To: python-list@python.org > Subject: Re: OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack) > > 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. <<snip>> > > 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
My thanks to Aahz and the others who responded. I also did some Googling on my own. I found out that top-posting is the norm in the e-mail world. Bottom- and inline-posting are the norm in the newsgroup world. So I concede the point, and I'm bottom-posting like a good citizen. Regards, Barry [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541-302-1107 ________________________ We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals. -Quarry worker's creed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
