From: Viaduct Productions <lists@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T22:24:16+09:00
Subject: Re: How to output an instance's type


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Rich in Toronto

On 2011-10-06, at 9:15 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:

> 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.

Yes, many ways of doing it.  I've just been on lists where every third comment is "do not top post".  Interspersed responses, like this, I've used in the past as well.  Even edited posts can get lengthy, given that people post code snippets, etc.  I was just seeing how this list generally behaves.  

> 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.

Yes, there is logic behind it, it's just that other communities hugely frown upon such logic, and continue to be … that way.  Just asking the questions before the flames come out.

Thanks for the response.  It seems this list is reasonably flexible.  

Cheers