Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:
> On 2021-Jan-16, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often
>> here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people
>> are reading postings here, so it pays to take time to trim down what
>> others have to view.

> Yes. Gmail, by hiding the quoted part of the message, has taught people
> that it's okay to leave the whole thing in place. For most of the rest
> of the world, it's an annoyance.

Top-posting goes along with that. The gmail style of top-posting and
not trimming what's quoted is sort of okay, as long as you don't actually
need to read any of what's quoted (but then why bother quoting it...)

The combination of bottom-posting and not trimming what you quoted is
actually the worst of all possible worlds, because then people are
forced to scroll through a whole lot of stuff to see what you added.

I see way too many people doing that lately, and to be honest I usually
stop reading their messages once I see that that's what they did.
You should only quote enough to remind the reader of what you're
responding to.

regards, tom lane