From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/78762 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 15:07:14 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87tyd3bpu5.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <878vuggg2p.fsf@lifelogs.com> <82pqnragyr.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304971818 10531 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 20:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 20:10:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27063@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 09 22:10:14 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 1QJWmU-000151-5d for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 22:10:14 +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 1QJWmO-00076D-Fh; Mon, 09 May 2011 15:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QJWmN-000762-F6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 May 2011 15:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJWmM-00026o-MJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 09 May 2011 15:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJWmL-00077N-AW for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 22:10:05 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJWmK-0000yW-Tw for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 22:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 22:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 22:10:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 32 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:U+2BYsk6XfL6nFpTV3V8CdLPQ7E= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:78762 Archived-At: On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:34:12 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: SN> 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. SN> [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. SN> [snipped 5 lines] SN> As a point against top posting supporters,nice, if they get the hint, SN> that is. As a regular post, if it's not monospaced fonts, you might SN> look silly. Oh, I'm not worried about *that* :) SN> Come to think of it, even trying to prove a point against top posting, SN> if it's not monospaced, you're probably going to land in everyone's SN> kill file. friend or foe,alike. :-) It's just a technical challenge to me, I wouldn't use it seriously, though it's very tempting if the top-vs-bottom-quoting debate starts again here. Ted