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Re: Top posting

From Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Top posting
Date 2026-04-05 10:00 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10qt8b8$19chn$5@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <10qr6oi$5nan$1@news.xmission.com> <slrn10t2d6n.33d.Adison@localhost.localdomain> <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me> <qds8amxtmd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor>

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On 2026-04-05, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2026-04-04 23:00, Lars Poulsen wrote:
>> On 2026-04-04 08:57, Adison Vohn Caterson wrote:
>>> On 2026-04-04, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 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.
>
> Terminal clients like Alpine allow "clicking" on an URL (actually,
> pressing [enter] on it), and then call a terminal web browser to
> display it.
>
>
>>
>> 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.
>>

GNU Emacs (which might not be desirable, as I see people were discussing
other text editor(s)) does have the advantage it could run both under
X11 and a terminal or terminal emulator, meaning you could get X11
features locally or over X11 forwarding and at the same time be able to
use it in a tty-like device; also server-mode makes it easier to open
separate Emacs instances all on the same "Emacs session".

-- 
Nuno Silva

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