From: "James D. Maher" Date: 2008-05-28T01:44:14+09:00 Subject: Re: documentation for ruby? As a matter of personal preference, I prefer what seems to be called "top posting". While reading, if I've been following a thread, I like to see the new info first. Replies are often brief and my old eyes sometimes have a hard time finding where the quoting ends and the reply begins. If I haven't been following the thread but get interested, I consider it my responsibility to do the homework and get caught up on previous posts in the thread. While replying, I try to write whole sentences that are reasonably self-explanatory. I usually include (at the bottom) the particular post that I am replying to - snipped for brevity - just for context. Point-by-point replies seem understandable to me with inter-posting. But I still prefer complete sentences and self-explanatory replies. Again, the quoting simply provides context and is only scanned, not re-read. Of course, now I've gone and contributed to a bigger problem - thread hijacking! j James D. Maher J.D. Maher & Associates, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Dober [mailto:robert.dober@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:07 AM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: documentation for ruby? On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Mark Wilden wrote: >> Please do not top post this community (as many others) prefer bottom >> posting > > Many others don't mind it either way, and if the quote trail is long, prefer > top posting. I don't know where the anti-toppers always seem to feel that > they can speak for everyone else. I have never seen anybody plead for top posting, I have however very often seen people asking kindly or humorously to bottom post. If you prefer top posts that seems to be unlucky for you especially as you did not ask either kindly nor humorously. I however do not take any offense and I was not speaking for others but transmitting information gathered over the years. Please go through the trouble of looking at the common posting scheme and what happens when somebody is top posting. Please note also that nobody ever has been agressed when kindly asking not to top post, as it just happened to me I am afraid that maybe I was not kind enough, if this is the case all my apologies. It however remains my intimate conviction that bottom posting is the accepted standard on this list, but if all of those who prefer top posting speak up, things might change. Cheers Robert -- http://ruby-smalltalk.blogspot.com/ --- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein