On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:28:19 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > >> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:07:53 -0400, wheres pythonmonks wrote: >> >> > P.S. Sorry for the top-post -- is there a way to not do top posts >> > from gmail? I haven't used usenet since tin. >> >> Er, surely you can just move the cursor before you start typing??? > > I like to think that the cursor is placed at the top by default so that > <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style> is > easy: just travel down through the quoted material, removing it if not > relevant and inserting one's responses where needed.
Yes, but apparently millions of Internet users have keyboards where neither the cursor keys nor backspace/delete works. Being unable to interleave their reply with the quoted text, they end up quoting the entire week-long thread at the bottom of every email they send. I blame Manservant Neville. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
