Re: bottom / top posting - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Francisco Olarte
Subject Re: bottom / top posting
Date
Msg-id CA+bJJbxAG8L2PyPsKpEeh4OMn1Gar=RTz7CxYdpvAFrM54LD+g@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: bottom / top posting  (Sam Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com>)
Responses Re: bottom / top posting
List pgsql-general
Sam:

On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 6:20 PM Sam Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com> wrote:
>  It could probably be argued that the prohibition was more relevant in the days before 99% of users read their email
viaclients which hide quoted content unless it is explicitly expanded. Arguably, smarter digesting software which
stripsout unnecessary quotations of earlier posts from beneath top-posted content would be a more effective solution
nowthat it is no longer common netiquette (nor all that necessary) to avoid top posting. 

I, personally, do not have a problem with the space, I use a 4k, gmail
collapses it AND stopping reading things like unnecessarily quoted
messages,  signatures and CO2 emitting eco recomendations to avoid
printing as become nearly automatic. My problem is I can understand a
message like yours in 5-10 seconds, properly scanning a top posted one
takes much longer. So normally I stop reading at the quote and discard
the message if I have not understood with what I have read UNLESS it's
from my mother or I'm been paid to read it.

I find top-posting moderately offensive, like saying "I am not going
to waste time to make your reading experience better".

Francisco Olarte.



pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: Rich Shepard
Date:
Subject: Re: Database issues when adding GUI
Next
From: Francisco Olarte
Date:
Subject: Re: bottom / top posting