Ruby Forum RSpec > top posting and plain text

Posted by Aslak Hellesøy (aslakhellesoy)
on 06.05.2009 21:04
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Folks,

I find it really hard to follow conversations that use top posting (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style).
If you have a [Cucumber] topic, please respond with inline comments. And 
use
plain text email - not html.

Thanks,
Aslak
Posted by Julian Leviston (Guest)
on 06.05.2009 21:32
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On 07/05/2009, at 4:54 AM, aslak hellesoy wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I find it really hard to follow conversations that use top posting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style 
> ).
> If you have a [Cucumber] topic, please respond with inline comments.  
> And use plain text email - not html.
>

I find it quite hard to follow conversations that use bottom posting,
so I'll try to do interleaved comments from now on. It's almost
impossible to do interleave posting on the iphone, btw.

Thanks.
Julian.

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Posted by Ben Mabey (mabes)
on 07.05.2009 01:45
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Posted by Rick Denatale (rdenatale)
on 07.05.2009 02:37
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Ben Mabey <ben@benmabey.com> wrote:
> Aslak
So let me get this right,

you agreed with Aslak that you shouldn't top post.

by top posting????

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Posted by Ben Mabey (mabes)
on 07.05.2009 02:55
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Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>
>   
lol.. Yes.   :)  Sarcasm somethings doesn't come across well over email
I suppose.

-Ben
Posted by Steve Schafer (Guest)
on 07.05.2009 03:02
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Just so you know, _your_ message isn't just plain text. Here's a portion
of the raw message:

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style).
>Folks,<br><br>I find it really hard to follow conversations that use top po=
>sting (<a href=3D"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style">http://en.wik=
>ipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style</a>).<br>If you have a [Cucumber] topic, plea=
>se respond with inline comments. And use plain text email - not html.<br>
><br>Thanks,<br>Aslak<br>
>
>--001636c5b0eedf7860046942ecfc--
>--===============0527642389==

-Steve
Posted by Francis Hwang (Guest)
on 07.05.2009 03:18
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How about both top and bottom posting?

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/

On May 6, 2009, at 8:46 PM, Ben Mabey wrote:
> lol.. Yes.   :)  Sarcasm somethings doesn't come across well over  
> email I suppose.

How about both top and bottom posting?

Francis Hwang
http://fhwang.net/
Posted by Andrew Vit (Guest)
on 07.05.2009 03:27
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On May 6, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Rick DeNatale wrote:

>> Thanks,
>> Aslak
>
> So let me get this right,
>
> you agreed with Aslak that you shouldn't top post.
>
> by top posting????

And Aslak's post was multipart/mime!? Was that just for the irony? You
guys are funny... :-)

Andrew Vit
Posted by Nicholas Van Weerdenburg (Guest)
on 07.05.2009 03:41
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Nick: How about   On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Francis Hwang <
Posted by Kero van Gelder (Guest)
on 07.05.2009 21:30
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>> So let me get this right,
>>
>> you agreed with Aslak that you shouldn't top post.
>>
>> by top posting????
>>   
> lol.. Yes.   :)  Sarcasm somethings doesn't come across well over email  
> I suppose.

Not only that, he did it in <html> so it was impossible for
me to see whether it was top or bottom. The sarcasm was clear
enough, tho ;)

+1 from me, too.

I'm adding a request: cut out the paragraphs of the email
that you are not responding to. I'm encountering plenty of
emails that don't fit on my screen (which is much bigger than
an iPhone) and turn out to contain not much more than
"yes", "thanks" or "see lighthouse <url>".

Bye,
Kero.
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Posted by Bart Zonneveld (Guest)
on 09.05.2009 00:38
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On 7 mei 2009, at 19:12, Kero van Gelder wrote:

> Not only that, he did it in <html> so it was impossible for
> me to see whether it was top or bottom. The sarcasm was clear
> enough, tho ;)
>
> +1 from me, too.
>
> I'm adding a request: cut out the paragraphs of the email
> that you are not responding to.

Same goes for signatures, if you'd ask me.


gr,
bartz