On 10/15/07, Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
I think one problem is that GMail encourages you to top-post. Not everybody uses gmail of course, but a lot of devs do. I'm probably guilty of not trimming enough because GMail folds that stuff out of the way for me. Personally, I'd prefer it if people don't top-post but I don't care too too much. I just stick with whatever approach has already been adopted in a thread. That's probably the pacifist in me. Pat _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
