Re: Hijack!

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: "Thomas Kellerer" <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hijack!
Date: 2007-12-12 15:10:42
Message-ID: 87ejds3q4t.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> writes:

> Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>> Joshua D. Drake, 11.12.2007 17:43:
>>> O.k. this might be a bit snooty but frankly it is almost 2008. If you
>>> are still a top poster, you obviously don't care about the people's
>>> content that you are replying to, to have enough wits to not top post.
>>
>> I personally find non-trimmed bottom postings at lot more annoying than
>> top-postings. But then that's probably just me.
>
> It's not just you. Much as I am annoyed by top-posting, I am much more
> so by people who top-post at the bottom. Hey, did I say something
> stupid? No -- think about it. These guys do exactly the same thing as
> top-posters, except it is much worse because the actual text they wrote
> is harder to find.
>
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> Alvaro Herrera http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvherre/
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> crufty enough, so the cruft leaks out into user-defined code instead, by
> the Conservation of Cruft Principle." (Larry Wall, Apocalypse 6)
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I agree.

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