From: David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
To: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Cc: <tomas@tuxteam.de>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preferred posting style
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:31:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA1P223MB0924AFA9BB0F7917DCC68EF9A2A7A@SA1P223MB0924.NAMP223.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cywtop0l.fsf@zedat.fu-berlin.de> (Loris Bennett's message of "Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:29:14 +0100")
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 08:32:44AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming the quoting of previous postings works (above there seems to be
>>> a discrepancy between '>>' and '> >', although Gnus seems to handle
>>> that), is there some sort of 'bottom-postify' command which would
>>> reorder the quotes? I occasionally do this by hand if I find the text
>>> makes no sense to me otherwise.
>>
>> ISTR there was something, not in the Emacs context, alas, and before
>> the First Internet Supernova (aka roughly Y2K, when Google had the
>> choice to either go bust or go evil).
>>
>> I guess it won't work, since proper "bottom posting" is a bit more
>> than just putting the whole kaboodle above and your two lines below.
>
> That maybe true. However, it would probably cover well over 90% of my
> uses-cases. Often someone sends me a message, I bottom-post an
> interleaved reply, and then the other person top-posts their answer. In
> this case would be enough just to move the other person's singly quoted,
> non-interleaved text to the bottom.
Interesting idea, but the formats of "top posting" done by the various
mail readers is not uniform making rearragement difficult and often not
satisfying.
> However I should probably raise the topic on the Gnus list rather than
> discussing it any further here.
Probably true. They might have some tricks.
--
David Masterson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-01 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-30 15:55 Preferred posting style yaxp
2023-10-30 16:43 ` Fraga, Eric
2023-10-31 20:42 ` Bastien
2023-11-01 3:58 ` David Masterson
2023-11-01 7:09 ` tomas
2023-11-01 7:32 ` Loris Bennett
2023-11-01 7:43 ` tomas
2023-11-01 8:29 ` Loris Bennett
2023-11-01 23:31 ` David Masterson [this message]
2023-11-01 10:45 ` Ihor Radchenko
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