Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Michael Nolan
There's so much garbage in a Google search any more that they're becoming nearly useless. Between 'sponsored' hits and ones that have little or no relevance but throw in words to get included, I find as often as not that IF Google finds what I'm looking for, it'll be several pages in. At some poi

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Paul Förster
Hi Mike, > On 16. Jan, 2021, at 18:29, Michael Nolan wrote: > > There's so much garbage in a Google search any more that they're becoming > nearly useless. Between 'sponsored' hits and ones that have little or no > relevance but throw in words to get included, I find as often as not that IF

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2021-Jan-16, Hemil Ruparel wrote: > Okay. I will not reply to them. Enough mental cycles wasted One way you could help, is by learning what top-posting is, learning not to do it, and teaching others the same. Same with not quoting entire messages on reply. -- Álvaro Herrera Valdivia,

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Paul Förster wrote: Or use duckduckgo or some other search engine. +1 Rich

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Rob Sargent
> On Jan 16, 2021, at 11:00 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Paul Förster wrote: > >> Or use duckduckgo or some other search engine. > > +1 > > Rich > And I apologize for a couple of toppers in this thread. Recent changes to mailer >

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 02:50:58PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2021-Jan-16, Hemil Ruparel wrote: > > > Okay. I will not reply to them. Enough mental cycles wasted > > One way you could help, is by learning what top-posting is, learning not > to do it, and teaching others the same. Same wit

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, enero 16, 2021 a las 02:50:58p. m. -0300, Alvaro Herrera escribió: > One way you could help, is by learning what top-posting is, learning not > to do it, and teaching others the same. Same with not quoting entire > messages on reply. +1 matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ g..

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2021-Jan-16, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 02:50:58PM -0300, Álvaro Herrera wrote: > > On 2021-Jan-16, Hemil Ruparel wrote: > > > > > Okay. I will not reply to them. Enough mental cycles wasted > > > > One way you could help, is by learning what top-posting is, learning not >

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Bruce Momjian wrote: That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people are reading postings here, so it pays to take time to trim down what others have to view. Bruce, This has b

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Rob Sargent
> On Jan 16, 2021, at 12:26 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Bruce, > > This has become most common over the past few years. It may be the result of > people using their pocket computers (sold as 'mobile phones') for email and > they don't take the

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > On 2021-Jan-16, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often >> here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people >> are reading postings here, so it pays to take time to trim down what >> others ha

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 03:34:32PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > On 2021-Jan-16, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often > >> here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people > >> are reading p

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Tim Cross
Michael Nolan writes: > There's so much garbage in a Google search any more that they're becoming > nearly useless. Between 'sponsored' hits and ones that have little or no > relevance but throw in words to get included, I find as often as not that > IF Google finds what I'm looking for, it'll

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Rob Sargent
Top/Bottom points um, er elided. Mail has always been well threaded, retaining which message lead to which replies.  How did we get away from relying on that (naked posting)?

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Ron
On 1/16/21 3:01 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: Top/Bottom points um, er elided. Mail has always been well threaded, retaining which message lead to which replies.  How did we get away from relying on that (naked posting)? Outlook. -- Angular momentum makes the world go 'round.

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Paul Förster
Hi Bruce, > On 16. Jan, 2021, at 19:36, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often > here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people > are reading postings here, so it pays to take time to trim down what > others hav

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 1/16/21 2:28 PM, Paul Förster wrote: Hi Bruce, On 16. Jan, 2021, at 19:36, Bruce Momjian wrote: That "quoting entire messages on reply" is something I see far too often here. I have been meaning to mention this problem. Thousands of people are reading postings here, so it pays to take ti

Re: Do we need a way to moderate mailing lists?

2021-01-16 Thread raf
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Paul Förster wrote: > Also, could it be possible to make messages plain text? I see a lot of > varying fancy fonts and I hate that. I even hate it more when people > post messages not properly trimmed or messages that need formatting > preserved such as