On 22/08/2012 07:25, Bob Martin wrote:
in 679182 20120821 181439 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:33 +0200, Alex Strickland
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote:
As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentim
in 679182 20120821 181439 Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:33 +0200, Alex Strickland
>declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote:
>>
>> > As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
>>
>> I too, but I'd pref
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:33 +0200, Alex Strickland wrote:
> On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote:
>
>> As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
>
> I too, but I'd prefer something top-posted than have to skip through 38
> pages of quoted e-mail to get to a (generally) 1 lin
On 2012/08/17 12:42 AM, Madison May wrote:
As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
I too, but I'd prefer something top-posted than have to skip through 38
pages of quoted e-mail to get to a (generally) 1 liner at the bottom.
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Zero Piraeus wrote:
:
On 17 August 2012 21:43, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
There are cultures that marry five year old girls to sixty year old men,
cultures that treat throwing acid in the faces of women as acceptable
behaviour, cultures that allow war heroes to die of hunger and cold
homeless i
On 20/08/2012 08:46, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:31 PM, rusi wrote:
On Aug 19, 12:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
is probably a really great person and kind to small animals and furry children,
but...
ROFL!
The first we're all familiar with.
Furry children?
Something t
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:31 PM, rusi wrote:
> On Aug 19, 12:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> is probably a really great person and kind to small animals and furry
>> children, but...
>
> ROFL!
>
> The first we're all familiar with.
>
> Furry children?
>
> Someth
On Aug 19, 12:15 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> is probably a really great person and kind to small animals and furry
> children, but...
ROFL!
The first we're all familiar with.
Furry children?
Something to do with heads the size of a planet?
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Hi Steve,
> I don't think I'm some sort of hyper-evolved mega-genius with a brain the
> size of a planet, I'm just some guy.
Based on reading thousands of your posts over the past 4 years, I'll
have to respectfully disagree with you on your assertion that you are
not some hyper-evolved genius wi
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> The software equivalent of somebody handing you a "blank" piece of paper
> and turning it around to see if maybe there's something on the back.
Straight out of a Goon Show, that is. Heh.
ChrisA
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On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:27:10 -0700, rusi wrote:
> For example, my sister recently saw some of my mails and was mystified
> that I had sent back 'blank mails' until I explained and pointed out
> that my answers were interleaved into what was originally sent!
No offence to your sister, who I'm sure
On Aug 18, 8:34 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-08-17, rusi wrote:
>
> > I was in a corporate environment for a while. And carried my
> > 'trim&interleave' habits there. And got gently scolded for seeming to
> > hide things!!
>
> I have, rarely, gotten the opposite raction from "corporate e-m
On 2012-08-17, rusi wrote:
> I was in a corporate environment for a while. And carried my
> 'trim&interleave' habits there. And got gently scolded for seeming to
> hide things!!
I have, rarely, gotten the opposite raction from "corporate e-mailers"
used to top posting. I got one comment someth
I am aware of this. I'm just to lazy to use Google Groups! "Come on
Ramchandra, you can switch to Google Groups."
On 17 August 2012 13:09, rusi wrote:
> On Aug 17, 3:36 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte
> wrote:
> > > On 16 August 2012 21:00, Mark L
:
On 17 August 2012 21:43, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> There are cultures that marry five year old girls to sixty year old men,
> cultures that treat throwing acid in the faces of women as acceptable
> behaviour, cultures that allow war heroes to die of hunger and cold
> homeless in the street, and
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:36:04 -0700, rusi wrote:
> I was in a corporate environment for a while. And carried my
> 'trim&interleave' habits there.
> And got gently scolded for seeming to hide things!!
Corporate email users are generally incompetent at email no matter what
email conventions you us
On Aug 17, 10:19 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:42:54 -0700 (PDT), Madison May
> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
>
> > As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
>
> I've been holding back on quoting the "netiquette RFC"...
On 2012-08-16, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte
> wrote:
>> On 16 August 2012 21:00, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>
>>> and "bottom" reads better than "top"
>>
>> Look you are the only person complaining about top-posting.
That may have been true -- in this thr
Hi.
As a lurker, I agree completely with Chris's sentiments.
+1
Best regards,
Jurko Gospodnetić
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On Aug 17, 3:36 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte
> wrote:
> > On 16 August 2012 21:00, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> >> and "bottom" reads better than "top"
>
> > Look you are the only person complaining about top-posting.
> > GMail uses top-posting by defau
> And FWIW, I add my voice to those who prefer to read replies
>
> underneath the original text. Even if Mark were the only person vocal
>
> enough to complain, you can still rest assured that there are many
>
> more who agree. You've now heard from quite a few regular posters;
>
> there are p
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Ramchandra Apte wrote:
> On 16 August 2012 21:00, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> and "bottom" reads better than "top"
>>
> Look you are the only person complaining about top-posting.
> GMail uses top-posting by default.
> I can't help it if you feel irritated by it.
I p
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