Ben Reser <ben@reser.org> writes:
> I said please. I didn't demand it. I still replied to the guys email.
> I don't see how asking people to follow a norm that virtually everyone
> on this list respects and makes everyone's job easier as a bad thing.
Whether top- or bottom-posting is better depends on the content of the
mail. Sometimes one is more useful, sometimes the other. I have
top-posted to this list many times before -- looking over just today's
mail, I've already top-posted one mail to the dev list (the one about
the svn_wc_adm_*_depth functions), and it was entirely appropriate.
There is no "norm that virtually everyone on this list respects".
Sure, there's probably a majority of bottom-posting, but hopefully
that's because people think about each individual case and do what's
best for that case.
The whole issue of which to choose is actually quite complex, and I
don't think it's worth describing a decision algorithm. Therefore I'm
not replying to do that; I'm only posting to ask that you don't imply
a norm that doesn't exist.
-Karl
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Received on Mon Mar 8 18:31:23 2004