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. > > 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. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
