Re: [pygame] Text To Speech PYTTS

[Laura Creighton <lac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On the other hand, if you have been following the discussion, a rule
requiring top posting can be greatly beneficial, especially when
combined with a rule that you cannot go 'ding ding ding' and respond
to each line of a prior message, as if this were a code review, but
instead have to summarise, and more importantly, only address the
main points.  New people to the discussion will, of course suffer,
but people who have been following the discussion will immediately
know when they can go on to the next message, and not read reams
of gorp they already know and have already seen 5 times looking to
see if there is 'anything new' there.  It saves a _ton_ of time.
The pygame list is probably not the place for it, but I suspect many
of you are also members of other, more closed lists, where the same
usual suspects gather and argue a lot.  You might try these rules and
see whether it helps.  For some of the lists I run it has meant that
busy people stay subscribed, rather than leave when the number of
list messages get large.

Just giving you a taste of it here, no more comments below: :-)

Laura 

In a message of Sun, 02 Mar 2008 09:22:10 EST, Joe Johnston writes:
>Luke Paireepinart wrote:
>> So you read "lane fire" instead of "fire lane".
>> 
>
>Ah!  Another bit of old school mailing list/usenet etiquette.  And
>yes, there is a Wikipedia entry about this:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Bottom-posting
>
>Top posting, also known as "jeopardy posting," has the unfortunate 
>consequence of giving the answer before the question is known.  If you
>haven't been following each response, then top-posting is quite confusing
>.
>
>I think top-posting is useful in those places where the correspondants
>stubbornly refuse to edit *any* of the previous responses, so you end
>up with huge swathes of wasted text.  At work, I see this style all the
>time and it sets my teeth on edge.
>
>I suppose either method of quoting will work as long as we're 
>consistent. Being an "older, distinquished gentleman," I prefer mail 
>threads to begin with the oldest part of the message first and the 
>newest part.  I'm already confused enough. :-)
>
>--Joe