From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Position of point in reply-with-original
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:40:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbcklp1n.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874o8kiwme.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:25:29 +0100 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> wrote:
RS> On Thu, Feb 03 2011, Antoine Levitt wrote:
>> - ignoring the setting in news posting
RS> That's a feature.
Well, considering GMane, some people may want to top-post in news
servers. So the feature is less applicable now than when GMane didn't
exist.
>> - asking you if you're really really sure when you post
>>
>> It seems it's pretty standard use in mail,
RS> Yes unfortunately, like HTML, missing line breaks, stupid disclaimers,
RS> "Sent from my whatever...", signatures without a separator, ...
This is like complaining that "hopefully" is misused too often. Yeah,
but this is about language and linguists will tell you that what's
considered "bad" usage today may become tomorrow's standard. We may not
like it but I think it should be easier for users to enable top-posting,
including revising the docstring to be less hostile to the idea and
mentioning it more in the manual.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-03 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-03 14:46 Antoine Levitt
2011-02-03 16:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-02-03 17:10 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-03 17:31 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-03 19:18 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-03 21:52 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-03 22:10 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-02-03 22:29 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-03 22:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-04 8:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-04 9:38 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-04 18:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-04 18:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-05 17:01 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-05 19:43 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-19 15:13 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-20 1:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-21 9:26 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-21 9:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-04 14:12 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-03-05 10:10 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-03-09 11:14 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-03-15 16:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-02-03 22:25 ` Reiner Steib
2011-02-03 22:33 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-02-03 22:41 ` Steinar Bang
2011-02-04 9:21 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-03 22:40 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-02-04 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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