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| From | Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) |
| Date | 2026-04-04 14:00 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <%nTzR.768402$WDc7.749578@fx16.iad> <10qr1nb$ms55$1@dont-email.me> <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <10qr6oi$5nan$1@news.xmission.com> <slrn10t2d6n.33d.Adison@localhost.localdomain> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
On 2026-04-04 08:57, Adison Vohn Caterson wrote: > On 2026-04-04, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote: >> In article <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>, >> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: >>> Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> wrote: >>>> On 2026-04-03 11:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>>>> On 2026-04-03, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> BTW, now we're 'complaining', *my* pet peeve is people quoting endless >>>>>> cumulative sections of previous text - often tens and tens to some >>>>>> hundred lines - without commenting on the text they quote and then >>>>>> adding only a few lines of new text. >>>> >>>>> And then using that as a justification for top-posting. Grrr... >>>> >>>> TBH, it depends a lot on which newsreader you are using. >> >> Just to clarify, the "it" in the previous sentence is referring to the >> practice of not top posting. >> >> And yes, most "modern" (and/or GUI) newsreaders default to MS style (i.e., >> top posting). >> >>>> ThunderBird makes it easy, /slrn/ makes it next to impossible. >> >> This surprises me. I'd have thought exactly the opposite would be true, >> but I've never used either one. > > In the slrn.rc(configuration) file, this will set the cursor at the > bottom of messages... set editor_command "vim -c %d '%s'" > Next to impossible ;) > >>> It doesn't matter if it's easy/easier or hard for the multitude of >>> (human) readers, the *poster* should spent the effort to make it easy >>> for *all* readers. Why should umpteen readers suffer, just because a >>> poster (i.e. *one* person) can't be bothered to do the right thing? >> >> I think you lost the thread here. I don't see how the previous poster's >> words could be interpreted as having to do with the ease of reading. >> >> Of course, we are talking about the ease of posting. And, of course, if >> software makes it difficult (or impossible) to do something, users of that >> software will shy away from (and not make any effort to correct the >> problem) using that functionality. It is just the way the world works. My testimony was not addressing the ease of top-posting versus bottom- posting, but the ease of looking up an earlier post in the thread if that level of "previous" had been snipped. /slrn/ (because it runs on a TTY socket) does not allow you to click through via a "References: " header, nor indeed via *any* embedded URL. The second of these can be remedied via the features of the terminal program on the user end (highlight, copy and then paste into a browser address line) but the "References:" has no easy solution. I was using /slrn/ for a long time, because I wanted to be able to read News from desktop PCs at several different locations (using SSH to get into my Linux desktop). I have now resigned myself to only read when I am at my desktop at home. -- Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California
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Old geeks and thread drift Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-03 05:31 -0700
Re: Old geeks and thread drift c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 10:37 -0400
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-03 14:45 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Mark Lloyd <not.email@all.invalid> - 2026-04-03 16:05 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 14:27 -0400
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-03 19:29 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <rinaldij@alien.free> - 2026-04-03 15:07 -0500
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:48 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2026-04-04 07:14 +0200
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 05:29 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-04-03 18:10 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:50 +0000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-04 05:55 -0700
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-04 14:10 +0000
Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-04 14:21 +0000
Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Adison Vohn Caterson <Adison@Caterson.invalid> - 2026-04-04 15:57 +0000
Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-04 14:00 -0700
Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 22:17 +0000
Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-05 10:42 -0700
Wayland vs. X11 (Was: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift)) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-05 18:28 +0000
Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-05 04:02 +0200
Re: Top posting Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-05 10:00 +0100
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Re: Old geeks and thread drift rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-04-04 18:43 +0000
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Re: Old geeks and thread drift not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-04-04 07:16 +1000
Re: Old geeks and thread drift Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-04-04 21:12 +1100
Re: Old geeks and thread drift The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-04 13:22 +0100
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Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-04 18:52 +0200
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Re: Old geeks and thread drift Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2026-04-05 12:26 +0000
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