Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes: > In the business world it's common to top-post and not cut previous > content > - and often appropriate, as it tends to be a communication between a > smaller number of people, and the uncut content provides context for > future reference. > Those who rant about anyone who top posts, or state that you should > never top-post are mostly clueless or arrogant, or are making over-broad > generalizations. Sure, there are contexts where that makes sense. On the PostgreSQL lists, however, you are writing for the archives as much as for the immediate readers (and if you don't understand that, *that* is the first thing you need to learn). The in-line, trimmed-quotations style is a lot easier to read when looking through a thread in the archives. Another advantage is that trimming quoted text reduces the number of useless matches when searching the archives. In short: this is the community consensus on how to post, there are good reasons for it, and we need to try to educate newbies in it. Not just say "it's okay to ignore the conventions". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Gregory.Williamson@digitalglobe.com ("Gregory Williamson") wrote in news:8B319E5A30FF4A48BE7EEAAF609DB233015E308D@COMAIL01.digitalglobe.com: > * my mail client *always* starts at the top of the message. For > rapid/internal mails top posting works better because the answer/most > recent is always at the top. Complex messages do deserve in-posting but > not always easy, especially if you have to do it manually). Does your > mail browser always start at the bottom ? I always see the top of a > message first. Simple threads work very well this way -- complicated > ones collapse under top-posting. I would say that it is very fine that the mail client always start at the top. Then you can read through the message and trim parts which does not need to be there. When you then have trimmed the quoted text you are on the end and can bottom post. Best regards Rolf Østvik