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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Top posting (Was: Old geeks and thread drift) |
| Date | 2026-04-05 04:02 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <qds8amxtmd.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (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> |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
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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Old geeks and thread drift Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-04-03 05:31 -0700
Re: Old geeks and thread drift c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-04-03 10:37 -0400
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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
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