Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.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 0.001 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:: [': 0.03; 'blue': 0.09; 'madison': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:posting': 0.09; 'though...': 0.09; 'aug': 0.13; '(generally)': 0.16; 'down...': 0.16; 'line)': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'strickland': 0.16; "where's": 0.16; 'martin': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'alex': 0.17; 'skip': 0.17; 'tend': 0.17; '>>>': 0.18; 'subject:] ': 0.19; "i'd": 0.22; 'least': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'common': 0.26; 'am,': 0.27; "doesn't": 0.28; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'rest': 0.28; '(since': 0.29; '>>>>': 0.29; 'sense': 0.31; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'material': 0.33; '+0200,': 0.33; 'scroll': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'everyone': 0.33; 'agree': 0.34; 'text': 0.34; 'fresh': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'next': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'shows': 0.38; 'page': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.40; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'help': 0.40; 'end': 0.40; 'back': 0.62; 'agent': 0.64; 'bob': 0.91; 'dennis': 0.91; 'subject:Top': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Top-posting &c. (was Re: [ANNC] pybotwar-0.8) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:35:58 +0100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-146-10-212.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120821-0, 21/08/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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: 32 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1345620890 news.xs4all.nl 6884 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44149 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27613 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 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. > The only solution is for people to use common sense. At least one snag is that Voltaire said common sense is not so common. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.