From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78758 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 23:34:12 +0530 Message-ID: <82pqnragyr.fsf@gmail.com> References: <878vuggg2p.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304964280 29297 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 18:04:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 18:04:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27059@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 09 20:04:36 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUos-0004BX-1D for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUoo-0006KB-24; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUom-0006K0-VW for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUom-0000hj-BP for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUok-00047D-Vw for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:26 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJUok-00047t-7G for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:26 +0200 Original-Received: from 122.179.59.226 ([122.179.59.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:26 +0200 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.179.59.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 20:04:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.179.59.226 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:A7NmasmzivwSIy5Yi+6hsMW/Y4g= X-Spam-Score: 0.2 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.3.1 2010-03-16) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.0000 Ham tokens: 0.000-1824--5379h-0s--0d--H*u:Emacs, 0.000-1728--5096h-0s--0d--H*u:Gnus, 0.000-1001--2953h-0s--0d--HX-Complaints-To:sk:usenet@, 0.000-1000--2950h-0s--0d--H*r:sk:1AlnuQ-, 0.000-1000--2950h-0s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:80.91.229.12 Spam tokens: 0.865-639--3901h-46431s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.865-639--3901h-46431s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.856-351--4066h-45176s--0d--HTo:D*gnus.org Autolearn status: no 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is freemail (nsivaram.net[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 1.2 RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO Received: contains an IP address used for HELO -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.9 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list 0.0 T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78758 Archived-At: On Mon, May 09 2011,Ted Zlatanov wrote: > Rather than explain it in detail, I'll just post an example: > > On Fri, 06 May 2011 14:14:55 -0400 Jon Du Kim wrote: > > JDK> Keep up the good | I am going to side-post now. [snipped 7 lines] > > What do you guys think, is this possible with Gnus? I'd love to make it > my default posting style on comp.lang.perl.misc for a bit. [snipped 5 lines] As a point against top posting supporters,nice, if they get the hint, that is. As a regular post, if it's not monospaced fonts, you might look silly. Come to think of it, even trying to prove a point against top posting, if it's not monospaced, you're probably going to land in everyone's kill file. friend or foe,alike. :-) sivaram --