On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 03:34:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > On 2021-Jan-16, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often > >> here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people > >> are reading postings here, so it pays to take time to trim down what > >> others have to view. > > > Yes. Gmail, by hiding the quoted part of the message, has taught people > > that it's okay to leave the whole thing in place. For most of the rest > > of the world, it's an annoyance. > > Top-posting goes along with that. The gmail style of top-posting and > not trimming what's quoted is sort of okay, as long as you don't actually > need to read any of what's quoted (but then why bother quoting it...) > > The combination of bottom-posting and not trimming what you quoted is > actually the worst of all possible worlds, because then people are > forced to scroll through a whole lot of stuff to see what you added. Agreed. By telling people not to top-post, we have made it worse in many cases. > I see way too many people doing that lately, and to be honest I usually > stop reading their messages once I see that that's what they did. > You should only quote enough to remind the reader of what you're > responding to. That is also what I do. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
