From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76625 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: want my comments above quoted matter Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:25:43 +0100 Message-ID: <87vd0oc5xk.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87sjvuwrxz.fsf@jidanni.org> <87fwrulh6b.fsf@member.fsf.org> <87bp2gdlf9.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1297610779 19601 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2011 15:26:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 15:26:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24968@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 13 16:26:11 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 1Podpz-0008ST-CU for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:26:11 +0100 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 1Podpo-0001cv-KO; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:26:00 -0600 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 1Podpm-0001ca-Do for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:25:58 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Podpb-0007lk-QG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:25:58 -0600 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Podpa-0005xX-SG for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:25:47 +0100 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B06C20260; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:25:46 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:25:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=O1ZGNBaslbXAWNu2x+rKOLqVd4g=; b=iKmL5SBjv2vsJ7yYsPY1/tGF4HZiwETEWtPz5njjbJZ17OIExFEduJw1hsRiuZQNa3mpAFP4YL5eZHNpGiXayWhbuIXV11VxaC//XfzYz3FQYsui4TlSDwTGH2AzF3HVAjjvly2FOPlbDeq9TE0tp4EipUOFwaOBm3G3TjdNDP0= X-Sasl-enc: LE5NeYU+XGx1IG97hhxyqQcc+mAsWmaQI4W5Uc5GLJqJ 1297610745 Original-Received: from thinkpad (dslb-178-001-228-127.pools.arcor-ip.net [178.1.228.127]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 40662442F78; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:25:45 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Francis Moreau's message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:12:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76625 Archived-At: Francis Moreau writes: Hi Francis, >> For me, it is put just below that intro line, which means: "read and >> add your replies to the original poster's question in the order (s)he >> stated them". :-) > > That's right, but I'm always finding me to move the cursor around that > make me think that this position is always wrong. > > At least moving the cursor to the last statement is sometime the good > thing to do. Well, IMO that encourages quoting the complete original message and putting the answer below, which is nearly as bad as top-posting with full-quote below. > Perhaps movin the cursor to the end of the first paragraph could be > better. Yes, that might be a good idea. >> "--\n" is not the correct signature marker. The correct one is "-- >> \n" (not the one space after --). And that's what I'm using. > > ok but the following bit: > > Bye, > Tassilo > > is _above_ the signature marker which means that Gnus will not > automatically delete this and the burden is left to the poster. Yes, that's right. But for me, a greeting is not neccessarily something belonging in the signature. I use that for a snappy remark, and a greeting above would somehow look strange... Bye, Tassilo -- Sent from my Emacs