Re: top posting
От | Stephen Cook |
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Тема | Re: top posting |
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Msg-id | 475F595B.8030707@gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: top posting (was: Hijack!) (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it>) |
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Re: top posting
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Список | pgsql-general |
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0600 > "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You're certainly not. I can't tell you how many times I've >> carefully replied to someone with inline quoting, only to get some >> top post response. I then ask them politely not to top post, fix >> the format, reply, and get another top post reponse. > > Jumping in here just cos I got tired to read here (nothing personal > Scott). > It is generally fun to read this kind of never-die thread in search > of the most stubborn reply but at the 4th reply they start to look > all equally stubborn. > > > a) people that have used email more than the average newcomers > and tried more clients they can remember agree that top posting in > technical discussions is generally[1] not efficient > b) this community agree that top posting is not welcome > c) replaying contextually and snipping will give people more chances > to get a reply > d) people here continue to remember that top posting is not efficient > to educate newcomers > > I'd suggest to people that think differently to just conform to the > rule. > I'd suggest to idealists to avoid to convince stubborn people and as > a retaliation to their anti-social behaviour to avoid to reply to > their questions if they insist in not conforming to the rules or > pollute the list with pro top posting arguments. > > This thread comes over and over and over on every mailing list. > We'd have a link pointing to the reasons why there are generally > better alternatives to top posting and cut the thread ASAP. > It is surprising how people with more experience than me on the > Internet get trapped in this kind of thread. > > *Especially because we could use their time much better.* > > Every time people like Tom Lane and Joshua D. Drake waste their time > in such kind of dump people on this list lose the chance to read > interesting stuff about Postgres, SQL and DB. > > > [1] In general; commonly; extensively, __though not universally__; > most frequently. > > BTW it is not a case that Computer Science and *Information* > Technology are strict relatives > I am subscribed to some other technical mailing lists on which the standard is top posting. Those people claim that filing through interleaved quotes or scrolling to the bottom just to see a sentence or two is a waste of their time. It is the same thing only backwards. Me, I don't care either way. I try to conform to whatever is the standard for whatever list it is. Why annoy the people giving free support? I suspect that neither is truly better, and that some of the original / very early / expert members just preferred bottom posting for whatever reasons, and it propagated into the "standard" for this list. -- Stephen
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