| From: | "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists? |
| Date: | 2021-01-18 11:49:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20210118114919.GB5132@hjp.at |
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On 2021-01-16 14:01:44 -0700, Rob Sargent wrote:
> Mail has always been well threaded, retaining which message lead to which
> replies. How did we get away from relying on that (naked posting)?
Has that ever been a thing? Quoting (and trimming) the message you are
replying to has been normal since at least the late 1980's (when I
started to use E-Mail). Unix-based mailers (at least since elm, not sure
about mailx) automatically quoted the previous mail with the ">" prefix.
Eudora (on Windows) did that also, if I remember correctly. Few people
deleted everything. Probably because most MUAs displayed only one
message at a time. The first MUA I've seen that displayed an entire
thread at once was Gmail.
hp
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