Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Adison Vohn Caterson Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 15:57:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: openSUSE 15.6 Lines: 47 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> Injection-Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:57:12 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0f8a01114110dec05df1d7e850ed0743"; logging-data="849841"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Zs1xaaB2VZs4SzlXZDIY4" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W69dM6/KmdwGnRp/T0LWjMmNNBc= Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:378 comp.os.linux.misc:85367 alt.comp.os.windows-11:31120 On 2026-04-04, Kenny McCormack wrote: > In article <10qrd58.1dig.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>, > Frank Slootweg wrote: >>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. > > Just to clarify, the "it" in the previous sentence is referring to the > practice of not top posting. > > And yes, most "modern" (and/or GUI) newsreaders default to MS style (i.e., > top posting). > >>> ThunderBird makes it easy, /slrn/ makes it next to impossible. > > This surprises me. I'd have thought exactly the opposite would be true, > but I've never used either one. In the slrn.rc(configuration) file, this will set the cursor at the bottom of messages... set editor_command "vim -c %d '%s'" Next to impossible ;) >> It doesn't matter if it's easy/easier or hard for the multitude of >>(human) readers, the *poster* should spent the effort to make it easy >>for *all* readers. Why should umpteen readers suffer, just because a >>poster (i.e. *one* person) can't be bothered to do the right thing? > > I think you lost the thread here. I don't see how the previous poster's > words could be interpreted as having to do with the ease of reading. > > Of course, we are talking about the ease of posting. And, of course, if > software makes it difficult (or impossible) to do something, users of that > software will shy away from (and not make any effort to correct the > problem) using that functionality. It is just the way the world works. > -- End Transmission