[OT] Top posting is a PITA [was : Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes]

[Mark Hahn]

> make your posts more readable

Sorry.

I really really try to remember to quote from below. If you go through my
posts you will see that I remember most of the time. The last few days I
have been reponding to four or five mailing lists after months of only
coding and my fingers are worn out.



"Bruno Desthuilliers" <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote in
message news:4069e9d9$0$8915$636a15ce at news.free.fr...
> Peter Hickman wrote:
> > Gerrit wrote:
> >
> >> only one. I think it is the wrong answer to say that people shouldn't
> >> bitch about top-posting - it _does_ annoy people (including me and
Aahz).
> >
> >
> > Will you please reign in you ego and qualify your statement 'it annoys
> > *SOME* people'.
>
> Well, it seems that it annoys *most* people here. BTW, I was about to do
> the same... (Mark, if you read us : your work seems pretty interesting,
> so do *yourself* a favor and make your posts more readable !-).
>
> > I find all the bitching about top posting to be a
> > greater distraction than top posting itself!
>
> So please stop bitching about people bitching about top-posting.
>
> >> There are conventions on usenet (and mailing lists), and they are there
> >> with reason. I would like to kindly ask you to try to do more
> >> 'bottom-posting'. It makes your postings easier and prettier to read.
> >
> > I find bottom posting to be a real pain as when I look at a new message
> > it defaults to showing me the top of the message and I then have to
> > scroll through pages of quoted posts that I have already read just to
> > read one or two lines stuck at the bottom.
>
> If you have to do so, then the poster didn't get point : only quote
> what's needed.
>
> (snip)
>
> >
> > I have never left a group because of the trolls.
> > I have never left a group because of the noobies.
> > I have left a group because of the constant whining about top posting.
>
> May I suggest you to count how many messages Mark posted here before
> someone kindly suggested that he could help everyone by doing a simple
> thing ? If that's what you call 'constant whining', then you are the
troll.
>
> > People who whine on about 'top posting' are the sort of people who draft
> > 'clean desk' policies. If you want to whine about top posting then start
> > alt.whine.top.posting and have fun.
>
> Après vous, mon cher.
>
> Bruno
>