* challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
@ 2011-05-09 13:26 Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 18:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2011-05-09 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Rather than explain it in detail, I'll just post an example:
On Fri, 06 May 2011 14:14:55 -0400 Jon Du Kim <jondk@FAKE.EMAIL.net> wrote:
JDK> Keep up the good | I am going to side-post now.
JDK> fight. Eventually I am |
JDK> sure you and the other | It certainly seems more effective than
JDK> mouth breathing mutants | debating this kind of nonsense.
JDK> here will turn the tide |
JDK> in the war against top | Plus, it will annoy *everyone*.
JDK> posting. I am sure |
JDK> you'll win in the end. | Ted
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.
Ted
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-09 13:26 challenge: side-posting (side-quoting) Ted Zlatanov
@ 2011-05-09 18:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-05-09 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 19:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-30 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Sivaram Neelakantan @ 2011-05-09 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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 <jondk@FAKE.EMAIL.net> wrote:
>
> JDK> Keep up the good | I am going to side-post now.
[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.
[snipped 5 lines]
As a point against top posting supporters,nice, if they get the hint,
that is. As a regular post, if it's not monospaced fonts, you might
look silly.
Come to think of it, even trying to prove a point against top posting,
if it's not monospaced, you're probably going to land in everyone's
kill file. friend or foe,alike. :-)
sivaram
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-09 13:26 challenge: side-posting (side-quoting) Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 18:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
@ 2011-05-09 19:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-05-30 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Tassilo Horn @ 2011-05-09 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ted Zlatanov; +Cc: ding
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> JDK> Keep up the good | I am going to side-post now.
> JDK> fight. Eventually I am |
> JDK> sure you and the other | It certainly seems more effective than
> JDK> mouth breathing mutants | debating this kind of nonsense.
> JDK> here will turn the tide |
> JDK> in the war against top | Plus, it will annoy *everyone*.
> JDK> posting. I am sure |
> JDK> you'll win in the end. | Ted
>
> What do you guys think, is this possible with Gnus?
You might be able to hack something together using org-mode tables. But
AFAIK, those cannot have cells spanning several rows...
Bye,
Tassilo
--
Sent from my Emacs
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-09 18:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
@ 2011-05-09 20:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
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From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2011-05-09 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
On Mon, 09 May 2011 23:34:12 +0530 Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> 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 <jondk@FAKE.EMAIL.net> 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
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-09 13:26 challenge: side-posting (side-quoting) Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 18:04 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2011-05-09 19:46 ` Tassilo Horn
@ 2011-05-30 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-05-31 9:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2011-05-30 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> JDK> in the war against top | Plus, it will annoy *everyone*.
> JDK> posting. I am sure |
> JDK> you'll win in the end. | Ted
>
> 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.
Well, if you put the text in an HTML table, like
<table>
<tr>
<td>in the war against top posting, I am sure you'll win</td>
<td>Plus it will annoy everyone<p>Ted
and then point shr at it, it'll render it like that, and you can post
it. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-30 20:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2011-05-31 9:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-31 18:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2011-05-31 9:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:24:57 +0200 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LMI> Well, if you put the text in an HTML table, like
LMI> <table>
LMI> <tr>
LMI> <td>in the war against top posting, I am sure you'll win</td>
LMI> <td>Plus it will annoy everyone<p>Ted
LMI> and then point shr at it, it'll render it like that, and you can post
LMI> it. :-)
Oh, that's clever. Can shr transform a HTML snippet instead of a whole
HTML body?
Ted
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* Re: challenge: side-posting (side-quoting)
2011-05-31 9:48 ` Ted Zlatanov
@ 2011-05-31 18:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2011-05-31 18:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> Oh, that's clever. Can shr transform a HTML snippet instead of a whole
> HTML body?
Sure. Just point `libxml-parse-html-region' at an HTML snippet and then
feed the resulting DOM to `shr-insert-document'.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/
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