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Re: bottom / top posting

Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>

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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
To: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Cc: Scott Honaker <scott.n7ss@gmail.com>, Grant Hopper <kb7wsd@gmail.com>, Erik Robins <erik.robins@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-06-09T23:50:58Z
Lists: 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