OT: Top Posting

[Roger]

Does it explain what?

Roger  
(for added emphasis)

Around Fri,Feb 07 2003, at 03:01,  Cliff Wells, wrote:
>Does this explain it?
>
>
>On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 14:28, David LeBlanc wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: python-list-admin at python.org
>> > [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Wojtek Walczak
>> > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:47
>> > To: python-list at python.org
>> > Subject: Re: ternary operator
>> >
>> <snip>
>> >
>> > ...but, well, in almost any case I'd use while loop, and what's _POOR_
>> > for me is top-posting on Usenet rather than using i=0;while ...:... :)
>> >
>> 
>> I've never quite understood why it's considered rude to top-post, especially
>> given that most people quote emails verbatim in their reply. I already read
>> that, and I want the new stuff - why scroll past the old stuff to get to the
>> new stuff? It does make sense to embed responses when you're responding to
>> something point by point, but that's not always the form of a reply.
>> 
>> I suspect that if people trimmed email responses, usenet/ml bytes would drop
>> drastically. I wonder what the spammie hit rate on ">" is? ;)
>> 
>> Dave LeBlanc
>> Seattle, WA USA
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