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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 threads=B9 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:=20
=B9 gnus-uu-digest-mail-forward (S-O-m) nit
    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29310
=20
  [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

--=20
Steven E. Harris