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

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: bottom / top posting
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Msg-id 49f1e9f5-ba8f-9eed-f931-500ad7ca3f3f@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: bottom / top posting  ("Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 6/9/21 2:41 PM, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun  7, 2021 at 07:53:30PM +0200, Francisco Olarte wrote:
>>> ... properly scanning a top posted one takes much longer.
> 

> I wonder about the tolerance of the world we live in.  Somehow, I can 
> deal with top-posting, bottom-posting, middle-posting, HTML eMail, 
> straight-text eMails, 80-column eMails, variable-width eMails, 
> occasional ALL CAPS eMails, & stupid multi-line signatures, all without 
> getting my tail in a knot over it.
> 

Think of it as a conforming to a style guide when writing for a 
publication. In this case the style is preferred for the reasons Tom 
Lane stated in his post.


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com



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