Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.004 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'part,': 0.09; 'portions': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'excerpt': 0.16; 'from:addr:cs': 0.16; 'from:addr:zip.com.au': 0.16; 'from:name:cameron simpson': 0.16; 'hackers': 0.16; 'hollow': 0.16; 'message-id:@cskk.homeip.net': 0.16; 'quoted': 0.16; 'received:211.29': 0.16; 'received:211.29.132': 0.16; 'received:cskk.homeip.net': 0.16; 'received:homeip.net': 0.16; 'received:optusnet.com.au': 0.16; 'received:syd.optusnet.com.au': 0.16; 'simpson': 0.16; 'subject:post': 0.16; 'subject:top': 0.16; 'top-post': 0.16; 'usenet': 0.16; 'applies': 0.16; 'thanks,': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'shape': 0.19; 'appears': 0.22; 'portion': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'logical': 0.24; 'subject:problem': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'too.': 0.31; 'yes.': 0.31; 'opposed': 0.36; 'received:com.au': 0.36; 'replies': 0.36; 'right?': 0.36; 'sequence': 0.36; 'skip:> 10': 0.36; 'form,': 0.38; 'received:211': 0.38; 'list,': 0.38; 'read': 0.60; 'most': 0.60; 'subject: ': 0.61; 'first': 0.61; 'content- disposition:inline': 0.62; 'such': 0.63; 'more': 0.64; 'to:addr:gmail.com': 0.65; 'news': 0.67; 'gesture': 0.84; 'shade': 0.84; 'reply,': 0.93 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 12:41:16 +1000 From: Cameron Simpson To: luofeiyu Subject: Re: problem on top-post MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <53ED66A0.4020801@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) References: <53ED66A0.4020801@gmail.com> X-Optus-CM-Score: 0 X-Optus-CM-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=AOuw8Gd4 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=YuQlxtEQCowy2cfE5kc7TA==:117 a=YuQlxtEQCowy2cfE5kc7TA==:17 a=ZtCCktOnAAAA:8 a=PO7r1zJSAAAA:8 a=LcaDllckn3IA:10 a=YdZ9KwvDn8wA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=vrnE16BAAAAA:8 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=0DecwL0tVNARG3YRH_EA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 Cc: python-list@python.org X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 26 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1408070481 news.xs4all.nl 2916 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:45138 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:76343 On 15Aug2014 09:47, luofeiyu wrote: >when i search what top-post mean: > >top-post: n., v. [common] To put the newly-added portion of an email or > Usenet response before the quoted part, as opposed to the more logical > sequence of quoted portion first with original following. >bottom-post: v. In a news or mail reply, to put the response to a news or [...] > existed. Hackers consider that the best practice is actually to excerpt > only the relevent portions of the parent message, then intersperse the > poster's response in such a way that each section of response appears > directly after the excerpt it applies to. [...] > the best way is  to excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent > message ,not top-post nor bottom-post , right? Generally, yes. It is what we try to use in this list, and applies in most technical forums. It makes replies read like a conversation, too. Thanks, Cameron Simpson Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion; - T.S. Eliot, _The Hollow Men_