Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift)

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From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject	Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift)
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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.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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  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
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          Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 05:29 +0000
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      Re: Old geeks and thread drift Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-03 22:50 +0000
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        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
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        Re: Old geeks and thread drift "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-04 22:14 +0200
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