Jeff Pritchard wrote:
> Isn't the root of the disagreement the fact that some of us only use the 
> web portal and others choose to get the email version of the the list?

Worse, there's also the newsgroup comp.lang.ruby.  So there's not only 3 
methods of accessing this list, there's many different clients for 2 of 
the forms.

> I assume that when getting the new posting in an email it would be 
> frustrating to get a long answer out of context, followed by a quoted 
> question or part of somebody else's reply.

Some email programs (including gmail) now make threads from replies now. 
But even without that, most people that top post don't have hugely 
complex replies with no context in the message.  And if i find I -need- 
more context, it's quoted below for a quick glance.  So it just doesn't 
bother me.

Maybe I just treat email/newsgroup stuff like it's non-professional and 
won't always make sense.  If I expected perfect grammar, spelling and 
full thoughts, I'd probably be annoyed at quite a few people.

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