[BangPypers] [OT] Guido's Tweet on Top Posting

Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon at au-kbc.org
Fri Sep 11 10:21:56 CEST 2009


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 is - the OP did not provide the link
>
> Also, about the original tweet --  That is possibly just an off hand remark
> (directed at one particular person) by a guy, just the fact that the guy is
> gvr and is saying something unexpected when taken out of context is not
> reason enough to post it to a python mailing list, IMHO. Doing that is
> plain stupid but unfortunately it happens all the time with twitter. This
> is exactly what I hate about twitter -- there is no context.

does GVR top post?

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Kenneth Gonsalves
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