Re: New Release of Mogwai ERDesigner NG

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:30:22 +1100, Ben Finney
<bignose+hates-spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>That's a false dichotomy. Top-posting and bottom-posting are both bad.

	Nothing personal, but I don't share your view.  

>As already pointed out, top-posting is bad because it breaks the flow
>of normal discussion. We read chronologically top-to-bottom, so your
>reply should follow what you're replying to.

	I don't see how not having to reread things that I read on
previous posts breaks the flow of the conversation.  It certainly
doesn't for me.  

>But bottom-posting implies the other problem that's been referred to:
>failing to trim the quoted material. Usually your reply will be
>relevant only to a subset of the original to which you're replying, so
>it's annoying to let that quoted material build up and up in a thread.

	That's true.  I trim out the old stuff when I post and try to
leave a minimal amount of comments from the previous post.  

	But for those that don't, I'd rather they just top post and be
done with it.  That way I don't have to scroll all the way to the
bottom of the post to read the new comments.  You don't really think I
reread it every time, do you?  

>The preferred style is "trimmed quote, inline posting": remove
>anything from the original not relevant to your reply (leave the
>attribution lines so we can still see who wrote which part), and place
>your reply inline with the part of the original you're responding to.

	That's what I often (though not always) do.  It's an
improvement, I'll admit.  

>That way there's enough context without it being obnoxious, and the
>message reads chronologically.

	Well, chronologically or not, I don't reread paragraph after
paragraph of what I've already read.  So that part doesn't do anything
for me anyway.  

	Regards, 



					Fred