I prefer NOT to have to scroll down to the bottom of an email anyway. I
think discussion list emails like ours need to be like your medical
records, the most important, recent stuff is at the top.
I'm not exactly sure what full quoting is.
David Olbersen wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David W Noon [mailto:dwnoon@spamtrap.ntlworld.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:20 AM
>>To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] move to usenet?
>>
>>I agree that many messages are not formatted according to Usenet
>>conventions, but I normally attribute that to Windows users who know
>>nothing about the Internet. Thus, top-posting and
>>full-quoting are rife all
>>across Usenet.
>>
>>
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>David,
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>What is the point of bottom posting anymore? I thought it had to do with turn-around time so that you could re-read
whateverit is you wrote a "long time ago". I highly doubt you would know, but is there an easy way to make Outlook 2000
(notExpress) bottom post? I've searched groups.google.com for it and found only things like "Copy & paste your
signature",etc.
>
>Full-quoting is just a pain when it comes to searching on google, since a reply may only consist of quoted messages
andthen a "read the whole message" link.
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>David Olbersen
>iGuard Engineer
>St. Bernard Software
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