On 10/15/2007 5:04 PM, aslak hellesoy wrote: > Good point. Reminds me of this classic: > > A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of the discussion. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? > > On 10/15/07, s.ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sort of off-topic and don't mean to complain, but many on this list >> use top quoting. That works ok if you don't quote the whole previous >> thread. However, I'm finding that scrolling forever to locate the >> reply on longer threads is getting tedious. What's the rationale for >> top-quoting?
Yeah.. this is an age-old Internet debate, of course, but I think the problem is that (a) we're all top-quoting but (b) we're never trimming, not even the mailing-list footer. If you're gonna top-quote/bottom-post - and that is my personal favorite for exactly the reasons demonstrated in the A&Q above - you gotta trim. Also, you should never mix styles in a single thread, the way this post does.. :) Part of the problem may be that the rspec footer doesn't follow .sig rules; instead of the long line, it should use dash-dash-space. In my incredibly scientific test, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 on Windows will automagically trim .sigs that follow the rule, and therefore, so will all clients anywhere. Jay -- This is a sig that will get trimmed, by Thunderbird, at least. Drink Coca-Cola! _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
