Re: documentation for ruby?

I agree fully with James - this style of replying seems more natural to
me.. ;)

saji

* James D. Maher <jmaher@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2008-05-28 01:44:14 +0900]:

As a matter of personal preference, I prefer what seems to be called
"top posting".

While reading, if I've been following a thread, I like to see the new
info first. Replies are often brief and my old eyes sometimes have a
hard time finding where the quoting ends and the reply begins. If I
haven't been following the thread but get interested, I consider it my
responsibility to do the homework and get caught up on previous posts in
the thread.

While replying, I try to write whole sentences that are reasonably
self-explanatory. I usually include (at the bottom) the particular post
that I am replying to - snipped for brevity - just for context.

Point-by-point replies seem understandable to me with inter-posting.
But I still prefer complete sentences and self-explanatory replies.
Again, the quoting simply provides context and is only scanned, not
re-read.

Of course, now I've gone and contributed to a bigger problem - thread
hijacking!




j

James D. Maher
J.D. Maher & Associates, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Dober [mailto:robert.dober@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:07 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: documentation for ruby?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Mark Wilden <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Please do not top post this community (as many others) prefer bottom
posting

Many others don't mind it either way, and if the quote trail is long,
prefer
top posting. I don't know where the anti-toppers always seem to feel
that
they can speak for everyone else.

I have never seen anybody plead for top posting, I have however very
often seen people asking kindly or humorously to bottom post.
If you prefer top posts that seems to be unlucky for you especially as
you did not ask either kindly nor humorously.
I however do not take any offense and I was not speaking for others
but transmitting information gathered over the years.
Please go through the trouble of looking at the common posting scheme
and what happens when somebody is top posting.

Please note also that nobody ever has been agressed when kindly asking
not to top post, as it just happened to me I am afraid that maybe I
was not kind enough, if this is the case all my apologies.

It however remains my intimate conviction that bottom posting is the
accepted standard on this list, but if all of those who prefer top
posting speak up, things might change.

Cheers
Robert

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