Re: Top posting

From	Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject	Re: Top posting
Date	2026-04-05 12:41 +0000
Organization	NOYB
Message-ID	<10qtsas.aoc.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(2 earlier) <10qr1nb$ms55$1@dont-email.me> <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <10qr6oi$5nan$1@news.xmission.com> <slrn10t2d6n.33d.Adison@localhost.localdomain> <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me>

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Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.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.

  Doesn't slrn have a (keyboard key) *command* to display the parent
article?

  In my newsreader - tin -, I just press the 'u' key ('u'p the thread)
to display the parent article. (I would be surprised if slrn doesn't
offer similar functionality.)

> 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.

  As a workaround/hack, you could append the message-id from the
References; header to https://newsgrouper.org/ in your brwowser, i.e.
for your article:

https://newsgrouper.org/<10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me>

which your browser will turn into:

https://newsgrouper.org/%3C10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me%3E

  N.B. newsgrouper.org is an alternative for the no longer functioning
(or at least not functioning very well) http://al.howardknight.net/
site.

> 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.

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