OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2917.1169243036.32031.python-list at python.org>,
Carroll, Barry <Barry.Carroll at psc.com> wrote:
>
>Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
>mandates against top-posting.  This is not sarcasm; I would really like
>to see it.  You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
>When I was last a regular Usenet citizen the Internet was new, GUI
>interfaces were experimental and the World Wide Web didn't exist yet.
>Newsreader software was text-based.  Top-posting was the common
>practice, because it was the most convenient: you didn't have to page
>through an arbitrarily large number of messages, most of which you'd
>already read umpteen times, to get to the new stuff you were interested
>in. =20

Funny, I've been on Usenet for more than fifteen years, continuously
(and long-windedly -- but that's another matter) and I've never seen a
Usenet group where top-posting was standard.  Anyway, here's a good
resource:

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html
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