---- Matthias Wessendorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> the main problem is,
> that there is no javadoc in tomahawk's start page.

There never was AFAIK. 

Do you mean that now there is no link in the main myfaces page, we should add a 
link on the Tomahawk page so people do not need to open the "project reports" 
section? That sounds reasonable to me - if no-one beats me to it, I'll do it 
next week sometime.

> > PS: Aargh.. I hate top-posting.
> 
> I don't get that.

Top-posting is where someone replies to an email and puts their new text at the 
very top of the email, above the stuff they are replying to. It is very popular 
among non-technical people, mainly AFAIK because by default Microsoft Outlook 
places the cursor at the top of emails when the reply button is pressed.

Top-posting is very annoying on email lists, as you need to first scroll down 
to the bottom of the email to understand what topic is being discussed, then 
scroll back to the top to read what the person actually has to say about it. 
And where an email makes multiple points that need to be replied to, 
top-posting is just plain useless. It also encourages cruft like signatures and 
these dumb company disclaimers to accumulate. I've seen email threads where 
after a few replies there are hundreds of lines of such crap at the bottom of 
each email. Ok, bandwidth and disk storage are cheap these days but it is just 
ugly.

Bottom-posting is what I am doing here - putting reply text *after* the 
specific text being replied to. It means that an email can be read 
top-to-bottom with all the necessary information presented. It also encourages 
people to trim out information that is no longer relevant to the discussion, 
keeping things focussed on the important stuff.

And it is *really* annoying when person one posts an email, person two replies 
in bottom-posting mode, then person three uses top-posting. I quite often just 
delete these without reading as it is (a) hard to follow, and (b) just plain 
rude.

BTW, when an email thread already has top-posting established (yecch) then it 
is best to stick with it, as the only thing worse than top-posting is a mix.

Sorry for the rant, but emails that are hard to follow are just a big waste of 
time and really annoy me...

Regards,
Simon

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