[Ruby] Top Posting (was Hacking Tomorrow!)

[Ali Rizvi]

Here is my position/opinion/2cents on top posting, it is kind of a middle
ground (I am not sure if it would is persuasive enough to change the
founding members' religion but  I am not even trying to do that).

I think if you are responding directly to someone's question in the thread
then it makes perfect sense to copy the question and answer it below the
question (like what Eric did to my rubyforge SLA question, nice and
readable).

On the other hand if you are just posting a reply on the thread that is not
a response to a direct question and is just a new thought, opinion or
suggestion there is no harm in top posting as it does not make sense for
other reading it to scroll through a lot of context. This would work best
with relevant subject like one of my pet peeves (although I have mistakenly
sent and regretted an empty subject line occassionally I try to have a
relevant subject always).

I think the model I described works in the case where you want to preserve
context (if someone just open this email they can find how the discussion
ended up here (if they want) and get the relevant information in the best
way possible.

If you follow the golden rule then you don't even have to think about it.

Take it easy.
Ali

PS: Now I messed up the nice gmail threading by changing the subject but may
be that is a good thing.



On 5/22/06, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby at zenspider.com> wrote:
>
> my sig says it all...
> --
> A: Yes
> Q: Is top-posting bad?
>   — Derek Milhous Zumsteg
>
> On May 22, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Frederick Alger wrote:
>
> > Braeburn — Also a mighty fine apple.
> >
> > yarr, apples.
> > - Fred
> >
> > On May 22, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
> >
> >> On May 22, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Ingy dot Net wrote:
> >>> On 22/05/06 12:12 -0700, Eric Hodel wrote:
> >>>> On May 22, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Ingy dot Net wrote:
> >>>> [... see how understandable this timeline is??? They also took
> >>>> time to remove the cruft.]
>
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