From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T04:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: documentation for ruby?

I top post because Gmail sets it up that way when I hit reply.

This is a fine bikeshed, but let's please get back to Ruby.  This
isn't my-usenet-nitpicks-talk.

--Jeremy

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:44 PM, James D. Maher <jmaher@jdmaher.com> wrote:
> 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 <mark@mwilden.com> 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
>
>
>



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