[ubuntu-art] Again, top-posting. (*sigh*)

[Dean Landolt]

> Well, top posting is quite annoying when you're trying to view the thread
> linearly. Imagine if on a forum someone kept finding a way of posting before
> the original author way back on page one.
>
> Anyway, in Gmail it's pretty easy to avoid. When you do a replay just page
> down to after the person to whom your replying and type your message there.
> It's a simple thing to do and it makes everything really easy to read for
> everyone. Maybe those who find it most annoying should just put something in
> their signature about it?
>
> It's rude to do it, but if someone doesn't know about it they shouldn't be
> made to feel like they are an idiot and shouldn't be posting to the list.
>

Agreed. But of the dozens of active mailing lists I'm subscribed to, this is
the only one with such continued public shamings on it. I remember when I
first starting posting to the python forums I got a few friendly private
messages about top posting and haven't done it (consiously) since. Of course
sigs could also be a good solution.
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