"Top-posting complaints is the old timers trying to assert their power over
the newer generation who takes everything for granted."
http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/2403974538
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>From Wikipedia:
"""
Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in
communities that date to Usenet's early days. Until the mid-90s,
top-posting was unknown and interleaved posting an obvious standard
that a
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote:
> >From Wikipedia:
>
> """
> Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
> persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in
> communities that date to Usenet's early days. Until the mid-90s,
> top-posting was
Why?
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote:
>> >From Wikipedia:
>>
>> """
>> Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
>> persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in
>> communit
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:09:52 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Why?
do you mean why does wikipedia contains BS? or why do I think that the
quotation is BS?
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Why do you consider the quotation to be BS? I assume from your first
question that you *do* consider it to be BS.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:09:52 am Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>> Why?
>
> do you mean why does wikipedia contains BS? or why do
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 12:21:48 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Why do you consider the quotation to be BS? I assume from your first
> question that you do consider it to be BS.
yes I do - but since your top post has removed the context I will have to go
searching in the archives for it - so will reply
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote:
> > >From Wikipedia:
> >
> > """
> > Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
> > persons who first went online in the earlier days of Usenet, and in
> > communiti
On 09/11/2009 01:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote:
> > From Wikipedia:
>
> """
> Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
> persons who first went online
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 1:44:50 pm steve wrote:
> Just to be a pedant, I should point out that the quoted paragraph clearly
> states that "Objections to top-posting on /newsgroups/..."
>
> The entire paragraph is in the context of newsgroups (and Usenet in
> particular).
who knows what the context i
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
[..]
> why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting,
[..]
I noticed. You need to chill a little. :)
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On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:02:19 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
> wrote: [..]
>
> > why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting,
>
> [..]
>
> I noticed. You need to chill a little. :)
AFAIK this list does not enforce the 'no top post
> why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, but have
> never
> used usenet or been in a C forum. I only learned about interleaved posting in
> about 2002 or so. And the vast majority of people online now have similar
> experience to mine. And also the vast majority of top po
>
> who knows what the context is - the OP did not provide the link
> >
>
> The "in reply to" link in the tweet provides the context. I am using the
Twitter web ui, not sure how it works with various Twitter clients.
Context:
=
http://twitter.com/jtauber/status/2403
Comments inline
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
> > why? in the first place I am extremely sensitive to top posting, but have
> never
> > used usenet or been in a C forum. I only learned about interleaved
> posting in
> > about 2002 or so. And the vast majority of peopl
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Dhananjay Nene
wrote:
[..]
> IMO, at the end of the day it really doesn't matter and probably the best
> thing is to simply get comfortable with both and move beyond the issue. On a
> similar note, I continue to use British spellings but really don't get
> surprise
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
[..]
> Others, unfortunately fail to accept it; they are simply too lazy to
> be courteous to others. I would blame the webmail clients for that
> though. They are simply not smart enough to put the cursor in the
> right place (which is be
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> I haven't since a convincing argument either way on the topic why should
> newer folks
> adopt or not adopt a Usenet sensibility. IMO the usenet "pattern" is simply
> fighting
> a losing battle (one I gave up ages ago before shifting to top p
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:21:48 pm Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Baishampayan Ghose
> wrote: [..]
>
> > Others, unfortunately fail to accept it; they are simply too lazy to
> > be courteous to others. I would blame the webmail clients for that
> > though. They are simply n
Kenneth,
Comments inline,
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> > I haven't since a convincing argument either way on the topic why should
> > newer folks
> > adopt or not adopt a Usenet sensibility. IMO the usenet "p
Correction inline (sorry for one more post just for that)
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> Kenneth,
>
> Comments inline,
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>
>> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 2:41:48 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
>> > I haven't since a convinc
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 11:00:41 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:54:27 am srid wrote:
>> > >From Wikipedia:
>> >
>> > """
>> > Objections to top-posting on newsgroups, as a rule, seem to come from
>> > persons who f
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> does GVR top post?
I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting,
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554
and here, for instance, he does not use top-posting,
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/M
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:56 PM, srid wrote:
> I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting,
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554
>
> and here, for instance, he does not use top-posting,
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Venkatraman S wrote:
> @srid: Wow. How do you manage to find time to search these things? Did you
> go via each of the posts by Guido? If yes, tell him :)
Actually since I follow python-dev@ (and occasionally python-ideas@),
I have already seen GvR using both sty
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:56:09 pm srid wrote:
> > does GVR top post?
>
> I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting,
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554
>
> and here, for instance, he does not use top-posting,
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/
On Friday 11 Sep 2009 3:09:27 pm Dhananjay Nene wrote:
> > this is interesting. I never knew there were any arguments for top
> > posting -
> > apart from the default 'it is the easiest way of doing things'. Could you
> > point out these arguments?
>
> Mails get used to communicate very diverse lev
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On Friday 11 Sep 2009 10:56:09 pm srid wrote:
>> > does GVR top post?
>>
>> I have seen him doing both. An example of him top-posting,
>>
>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/python-dev/3743554
>>
>> and here, for instance,
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 7:25 AM, srid wrote:
>>> Objections to top-posting *as a rule* is silly.
>>
>> please be polite - invective never wins arguments.
>
> Please explain what is "invective" (insulting, abusive, or highly
> critical language) about anything said here. And what would be a
> polit
On Saturday 12 Sep 2009 7:25:52 am srid wrote:
> >> Objections to top-posting *as a rule* is silly.
> >
> > please be polite - invective never wins arguments.
>
> Please explain what is "invective" (insulting, abusive, or highly
> critical language) about anything said here. And what would be a
> p
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