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Re: svn commit: r38218 - in trunk: . build/ac-macros

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:46:07 -0700

Hyrum K. Wright wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Branko Cibej wrote:
>
>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>>> (Also please don't top-post, because it's harder to answer.)
>>>
>> Do we actually have a policy about this? 'Cos sometimes it makes more
>> sense to top-post, and sometimes I just go crazy mad when I have to
>> skip
>> past whole pages of quoted messages to read a couple of lines of
>> response ... so ... dunno, but at least the avid bottom-posters can
>> take
>> a bit of time to trim down the quoted text, IMHO.
>
> Actually, we do: http://subversion.tigris.org/mailing-lists.html#top-posting
>
> It basically says "don't chide people for top-posting. It's sometimes
> appropriate, but it's not a major inconvenience even when done
> inappropriately."

The thing that is annoying to me when using Thunderbird is when somebody replies
to a commit message, says something in the replies to some code in the middle
and doesn't trim anything below their last comment. Maybe this is a gmail thing
that collapses all the remaining text, but in Thunderbird, I need to scroll down
just to see if they said anything later.

It would be good if people trimmed the text in the email they are replying to
past their last reply.

Blair

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