Tom Lane wrote on 06.11.2007 21:21:
> The real point here is that when writing to a mailing list, you should
> make an effort to conserve other peoples' time. Hundreds of people are
> going to read what you wrote, possibly thousands when you count in
> people searching the list archives in the future. Saving them a few
> seconds apiece adds up fast. Not bothering to expend a minute of your
> own time to make it a bit easier on the reader marks you as a boor.
Hmm.
My News/Mail client (Thunderbird) displays all the posts belonging together in a
threaded manner. So I click on the first post, read the posting, click on the
second post, and the first thing I see is the first post repeated (or at least
parts of it).
If everyone simply top-posted, there would be no need for me to scroll down,
just to find a two line answer below a forty line quote - which I personally
find more irritating than top-posting.
But then that may only be me ;)