| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Boboc Cristi <bobocc(at)yahoo(dot)com>, "pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Kirk Parker <khp(at)equatoria(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Merge statement |
| Date: | 2022-11-17 20:05:47 |
| Message-ID: | 1954619.1668715547@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:48 PM Boboc Cristi <bobocc(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
>> *Top-posting is not by my choice, it is how the email client works.*
> Mine has the same default/convention. It is not difficult to choose to
> behave differently if one wishes. Given that these messages are read in
> archive by many people and usually with fairly long threads, most of which
> are indeed done to the bottom-posting convention, the wisdom of "when in
> Rome, do as the Romans do" is suggested.
Right. The point of quoting in a sensible order and trimming irrelevant
material is to make it easier on the readers. Failing to do that is
discourteous: it shows that you consider a few seconds of your time
to be worth more than a similar amount of time expended by each of
(possibly) thousands of other people.
regards, tom lane
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