Re: Newcomer Help

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Newcomer Help
Date	2014-02-12 15:17 +0000
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On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
>> In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite:
>> top-posting with strictly NO trimming.
>
> I've never found a corporation that objects to the sensible
> conversation-style, minimal-quotes-for-context interleaved posting style.

I've always worked in corporations where the email "culture" is the
Microsoft-induced "lazy and stupid" style as you describe.  And yet
when I respond with editted quotes and interleaved repies like this I
consitently get nothing favorable comments about it.  Some people have
even asked how I do it -- though they don't seem to adopt it.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! FEELINGS are cascading
                                  at               over me!!!
                              gmail.com

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Re: Newcomer Help Walter Hughey <wkhughey@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 11:49 -0500
  Re: Newcomer Help Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 19:01 -0800
    Re: Newcomer Help Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-02-12 15:14 +1100
      Re: Newcomer Help Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-12 15:17 +0000
        Re: Newcomer Help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 04:56 +1100
        Re: Newcomer Help Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:07 +1100
        Re: Newcomer Help Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 08:22 +1100

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