Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-06-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 29/05/2008, Bob Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... get their point across up front without making me wade through previous posts which I have already read. Good for you :} I can understand the concept of bottom posting No one advocates bottom-posting

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-06-02 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 29/05/2008, Bob Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... get their point across up front without making me wade through previous posts which I have already read. Good for you :} I can understand the concept of bottom posting No one advocates bottom-posting here. It's all about intersparsed

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-06-01 Thread Bob Pawley
] To: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andy Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Postgres General List pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bottom line: have some respect for your readers. Make it easy

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-05-28 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bottom line: have some respect for your readers. Make it easy to distinguish what you wrote from the preceding material, and remember that the only reason you are quoting anything at all is to provide some context for what you are saying. We don't need to

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-05-28 Thread Gregory Stark
Bob Pawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The concept of most lists should be the free exchange of ideas in the most efficient manner possible. What is this in response to? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's RemoteDBA services! --

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-05-27 Thread Andy Anderson
What do you mean whan you say Don't top post??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style On May 27, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Gregory Williamson wrote: In-line comments are more readable, especially for longish emails. The PosgreSQL mail lists all prefer this method. Some related lists (the

Re: [GENERAL] Bottom Posting

2008-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
Andy Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On May 27, 2008, at 7:41 PM, Gregory Williamson wrote: In-line comments are more readable, especially for longish emails. But if you do bottom-post, please *do* edit the earlier content down to just the context of your comments. Otherwise readers