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From: "Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>
Cc: David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>
Subject: Re: Forwarded threads come out backwards
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:18:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83hdjfmsd7.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u1xajvn05.fsf@boost-consulting.com>

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> When I mark a number of articles in the summary buffer and then
> select them for forwarding, Gnus puts them in the resulting article
> in reverse order.  That's confusing for the recipient, because they
> see the last messages in the thread first, without any context.

Please see these two threads¹ from February 2000 in which I discussed
a similar observation. Lars offers a remedy at the end of the second
one, but not a fix, per se.


Footnotes: 
¹ gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward (S-O-m) nit
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29310
 
  [Various] I'm starting this discussion (was "gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward (S-O-m) nit")
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29313

-- 
Steven E. Harris



      reply	other threads:[~2005-03-13 16:18 UTC|newest]

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2005-03-13 10:49 David Abrahams
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