:-)

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
>



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