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 V
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
On Thu, Feb 13 2014,Rustom Mody wrote:
[snipped 11 lines]
> What we need is something like the following self-policing rules:
>
> - First couple of answers, say nothing about etiquette/norms
> - Then start putting a gentle footnote indicating the issue along with the
> answer
> - If the problem
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:41:36 PM UTC+5:30, larry@gmail.com wrote:
> My personal rule is that I will give people 1 or 2 chances after they
> are asked. If they continue to top post or send double space posts, I
> simply ignore everything from them until they get with the program. If
>
In article ,
Larry Martell wrote:
> My personal rule is that I will give people 1 or 2 chances after they
> are asked. If they continue to top post or send double space posts, I
> simply ignore everything from them until they get with the program. If
> we all did that maybe they'd get the messag
My personal rule is that I will give people 1 or 2 chances after they
are asked. If they continue to top post or send double space posts, I
simply ignore everything from them until they get with the program. If
we all did that maybe they'd get the message (but probably not).
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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
otten the opposite raction from "corporate e-mailers"
> used to top posting. I got one comment something like "That's cool
> how you interleaved your reponses -- it's like having a real
> conversation."
Well sure. If I could civilize people around me, God (or
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 t
; > 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 hel
:
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
t and communicate effectively, it just takes a
LOT more work, and the sorts of people who prefer top posting simply
don't do it. Top-posting only works for shallow communication: simple
questions, simple replies, and shallow threads, two or three replies at
most. It's good for email
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 complai
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 complainin
> 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 c
Stef Mientki wrote:
>
>>> btw, it's also polite (in some cultures) to sign your messages ;-)
>>>
>>
>> Hmm. I appreciate that you took the time to remove my signature from
>> your reply but I don't think that you should then claim that I never
>> included one.
>>
>>
> Sorry for that.
>
>
btw, it's also polite (in some cultures) to sign your messages ;-)
Hmm. I appreciate that you took the time to remove my signature from
your reply but I don't think that you should then claim that I never
included one.
Sorry for that.
(now you get an idea how difficult it is for me
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:29:42 +0100
Stef Mientki wrote:
> I agree that top posting on a message like this is not very convenient,
Not convenient for thousands, slightly convenient for you.
> but for simple messages ...
It is still better to follow the suggestions I posted. Also se
I agree that top posting on a message like this is not very convenient,
but for simple messages ...
D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:37:17 +0100
Stef Mientki wrote:
FYI, top posts are much harder to read and to reply to than if you edit
the message to which you are rep
, which opens every message at the top,
> so top posting is the best readable for me,
Only if the previous poster didn't trim their text. Notice how I have
removed everything here that I am not replying to. I doubt very much
if you have to scroll down to start reading my response. You
Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Could you please timh and belindelof learn to quote properly and stop
> top-posting ?
In case it's not clear, by "quote properly" I believe Bruno means to
trim quoted material irrelevant to one's reply, and
Could you please timh and belindelof learn to quote properly and stop
top-posting ?
TIA
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Actually, the continuous complaining and ranting about Xah's 'postings' are
far worse than Xah's actual postings. I can filter his stuff to /dev/null.
The drivel that follows is almost as bad as the moronic effluent about how
extra-python things should be done or not be done or the legal notices
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