From: Robert Klemme Date: 2011-10-06T22:15:02+09:00 Subject: Re: How to output an instance's type On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Viaduct Productions wrote: > BTW is there any beef about top-posting in here?  I know some people get all huffy with that.  Having to scroll past a quotation is my beef with bottom posting. Well, bottom posting does not mean that one has to include the full message that is replied to. Usually the recommendation is to remove the stuff which is irrelevant or which is not replied to. But if you top post then basically you can omit the whole original message since the reader has to figure anyway what the reply referred to. Unfortunately this is not what typically happens: people will just top post a few sentences and leave the rest untouched. Then it's better to completely rid of the original message because it's only marginally more effort for the reader to go back to a previous posting. But with proper comments in line and the message pruned reading is so much simpler. It also shows that the replier bothers to make an effort to make it easier for his readers. This is a message of kindness. Kind regards robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/