Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2026 04:02:02 +0200 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <10qobvo$1ut20$1@dont-email.me> <%nTzR.768402$WDc7.749578@fx16.iad> <10qr1nb$ms55$1@dont-email.me> <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net> <10qr6oi$5nan$1@news.xmission.com> <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4LgiNCkBEdGDbi6ofJKp/AZt2wwoiY75sPt2nieC7LIyskRP3z X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:lvtLyyJ6P8TIvKKtfAh/9sZQFB8= sha256:31glBeZ2xUgw4MUU/rHk9sx+qBvPFO0SoskXbbwGzUs= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10qru66$v684$2@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:402 comp.os.linux.misc:85397 alt.comp.os.windows-11:31136 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 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🇪🇺;