:-) On Jan 23, 2008 1:12 AM, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ---- 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 >
-- Matthias Wessendorf further stuff: blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf mail: matzew-at-apache-dot-org
