| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Francisco Olarte <folarte(at)peoplecall(dot)com>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Top posting.... |
| Date: | 2017-05-15 00:04:49 |
| Message-ID: | CAOR=d=1O3yopdsgJL6uG46jkd_0Bfjd6eU5HQ5iaqg68ZLJNLQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 01:43:52PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Absolutely. The point of quoting previous messages is not to replicate
>> the entire thread in each message; we have archives for that. The point
>> is to *briefly* remind readers what it is that you're responding to.
>> If you can't be brief, you are disrespecting your readers by wasting their
>> time. They've probably already read the earlier part of the thread anyway.
>
> Totally agree, and I am seeing non-trimmed bottom posts more often on
> the hackers list than I used to. I am thinking someone needs to start a
> hackers thread about that.
Yeah I'd rather someone quote NOTHING than just top post with no trimming.
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