Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 14:25:38 -0400
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Craig James <cjames@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: top posting?
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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.
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> 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.

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=C1lvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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