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From: Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Top-posting &c. (was Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:25:17 BST
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in 679182 20120821 181439 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:07:33 +0200, Alex Strickland <sscc@mweb.co.za>
>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 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.
>
>Doesn't help me though... Agent shows quoted material as blue, fresh
>text as black.
>
>I tend to not see a one-liner at the top (since it is next to the
>attribution line) and if the rest of the page is all blue text I hit
>page down... and down, down, down... looking for black text... Then end
>up going "Wha', where's the new stuff?" and having to scroll back up to
>find a one-liner cuddling up with the attribution line.

Yep, and the only solution is for everyone to top-post.