Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4k-0004N0-90 for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 07:12:38 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4j-0004Yk-6l for pgsql-admin@arkaria.postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 07:12:37 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:7903:4::125]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4h-0004Ye-Vz for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 07:12:36 +0000 Received: from demo.vault.edesix.com ([84.45.109.44]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4f-0007CL-IJ for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 07:12:35 +0000 Received: from 93-97-174-104.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.174.104] helo=lenin.edesix.com) by demo.vault.edesix.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4b-0001Ze-Fr for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 08:12:29 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=mail.edesix.com) by lenin.edesix.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1UZc4b-0006jX-JW for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Tue, 07 May 2013 08:12:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_40d253843bb2c98aa34e400183330067" Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 08:12:29 +0100 From: robin To: Subject: Re: top =?UTF-8?Q?posting=3F?= In-Reply-To: References: <2444515.6dbtDYjUt4@tiburon> Message-ID: <3f22f0d2f222de42a1977805e7c0c2d8@edesix.com> X-Sender: robin@edesix.com User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.6 X-Spam-Score: -21.9 (---------------------) X-Spam-Report: lenin.edesix.com has assigned spam score: -21.9 / 5.0 pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -20 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Pg-Spam-Score: -0.5 (/) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-admin Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org --=_40d253843bb2c98aa34e400183330067 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, >> Personally I prefer top posts for short responses to a simple issue and in- >> between posts for everything more complex. > > And then, when some people will top post, som bottom post and some will answer inside the original email lines, then there will be a totall mess and most people will have problems to find out how the discussion flow looks like. You're both right - so can we put this to bed now? It is impossible to have a single style that will suit all and will make it easy to read all possible discussions in the same way. I am pretty sure that whatever reader they use, everyone can cope with messages that are as short as reasonably possible and contain just relevant text, whether new or quoted - and there seems to be a consensus that this is what is important, not whether your comments are at the top or bottom. Thanks, Robin --=_40d253843bb2c98aa34e400183330067 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Hi,
 

Personally I prefer top pos= ts for short responses to a simple issue and in-
between posts for ev= erything more complex.

 
And then, when some people will top post, som bottom post and some wil= l answer inside the original email lines, then there will be a totall mess = and most people will have problems to find out how the discussion flow look= s like.
 
You're both right - so can we put this to bed now?  
 
It is impossible to have a single styl= e that will suit all and will make it easy to read all possible discussions= in the same way.
 
I am pretty sure that whatever reader they use, = everyone can cope with messages that are as short as reasonably possible an= d contain just relevant text, whether new or quoted - and there seems to be= a consensus that this is what is important, not whether your comments are = at the top or bottom.
 
Thanks,
Robin
 
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