| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Craig James <cjames(at)emolecules(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: top posting? |
| Date: | 2013-05-06 18:25:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20130506182538.GA9283@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Craig James wrote:
> Contributors in these newsgroups seem to think it's OK to quote five pages
> of someone else's response, then add one or two sentences at the bottom ...
> it's just laziness that forces readers to wade through the same stuff over
> and over in each thread.
>
> How did the Postgres newsgroups get started with this "only bottom post"
> idea?
I think the intended strategy is basically what you outlined above, with
inline responses interspersed with trimmed quotes. I think we ended up
with bottom posting below gigantic quotes because of certain webmail
systems' idea (particularly Gmail) that "hiding" the quoted part within
a clickable ellipsis is a great invention.
--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
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