in 720726 20140411 134419 Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: >On 2014-04-11 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote: >> I have seen plenty of cultures where people are unaware of the value >> of interleaved/bottom posting, but so far, not one where anyone has >> actually required it. Not one. > >The only time I've seen top-posting required (though there was >nothing about trimming/dropping the content from the bottom) was on >some lists for blind users where they wanted the new content at the >top of the email rather than having to wade through lots of content >they'd heard previously. The actual context was usually either given >by in-sentence referencing to the topic, or the subject-heading >(blind folks seem to have an incredible memory for things sighted >folks are usually too lazy to remember).
I read IBM's internal forums from 1978 on (on VM/CMS). Top posting was the norm where quoted text was included, though quoting wasn't necessary as there was a means to display the post being answered. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
