Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Old geeks and thread drift Date: 4 Apr 2026 18:43:29 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <10qobvo$1ut20$1@dont-email.me> <10qoqpa.116c.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <%nTzR.768402$WDc7.749578@fx16.iad> <10qr1nb$ms55$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net MFD5GASRQAebfbf/Qy87UgfcEQiMElSyy1qStFF6BbNiEn5KZz Cancel-Lock: sha1:xqv2WjMGGXeRrBGbcCnAl6ehxSA= sha256:2oonEKDxiTPEfK2FDyWbxm75wfYAARG7Apbt15SE2I8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:388 comp.os.linux.misc:85382 alt.comp.os.windows-11:31127 On Sat, 4 Apr 2026 05:55:07 -0700, Lars Poulsen wrote: > On 2026-04-03 11:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On 2026-04-03, Frank Slootweg 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. ThunderBird > makes it easy, /slrn/ makes it next to impossible. When I use slrn the editor is gVim. G puts you at the bottom of the page. Next to impossible?