On 08/13/2015 12:26 AM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: > <snip> > Btw. to me, the *context is the entire post*, not just two lines.
You're a very rare person indeed. Most people seem to not read any of the post except the first and last lines. At least posting inline shows me they've read and understood the portion of my email they are quoting. Many times I've emailed someone with a few details and queries (not too many; attention spans are short), only to get a one sentence, top-posted reply that completely fails to come remotely close to answering my actual question. I went back and forth with one guy three times once, each time pleading with him to read what I wrote. Note that I removed content that isn't relevant to my reply, thus making it easier for others to follow this. > I hate if people answer me on every single word I've written and try > to explain what've got wrong instead of trying to understand the > message and my perspective as a whole. I find it very difficult to > respond to such a post and I am inclined to completely start from an > empty post. In my experience, when a person does this (delete everything and start from an empty post, or just say screw it and top post), he or she is likely the one who got the wrong message and failed to understand the message or my perspective. Not saying you do, but in general it's this rationale that has led to the reaction people on usenet have to top posting. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
