[rspec-users] Top Quoting?

[s.ross]

On Oct 15, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Nathan Sutton wrote:

>> This is especially true in cases where the reply might be two or
>> three lines long, and the untrimmed quoted message stretches on for
>> screenfuls.
>
> I totally agree, in fact I let most of these conversations just pass
> by because it's too much work to sift through all the nested quotes.
> I'd definitely participate more if things were trimmed sensibly.
>
> Nate
> _______________________________________________

Bingo! And (BTW) I'm the OP. I don't care whether you top-post or  
bottom-post. I try to pare the quoted email to the relevant, assuming  
that people either have read or have access to more context, should  
they need it. What got me started was the long thread on "Step  
matchers" (and I don't mean to single anyone out -- it just happens  
to be a thread I gave up on rather recently because of this).

I just thought I would raise the issue and see if anyone had any  
thoughts about it. From what I read it's:

- Bottom post or interleave
- Trim quoted mail to provide quoted context but not extraneous
- Keep posts DRY :)

Yes?

Steve