your text should follow quoted text

your text should follow quoted text

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 

           Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?

What does he mean by that? The article was

                   <84abs21gyd.fsf@blade3.toledo.com>

on comp.lang.haskell.

-- 
Is ``gnus is a he'' a wise assumption?

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Edward O'Connor]

> Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 
>            Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?

> What does he mean by that? The article was

I believe that Gnus is discouraging you from top-posting[0].


-- 
Ted

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Xavier Maillard]

Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> writes:

>> Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 
>>            Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?
>
>> What does he mean by that? The article was
>
> I believe that Gnus is discouraging you from top-posting[0].

What a neat feature ! This is the first one I see that acts like
this. Great idea.

-- 
Xavier Maillard

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Daniel C. Bastos]

Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com> writes:

>> Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 
>>            Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?
>
>> What does he mean by that? The article was
>
> I believe that Gnus is discouraging you from top-posting[0].

Did you see the message whose ID you snipped? Can you point out which
part of it is a sign of top posting?

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Daniel Jensen]

dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:

> Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 
>
>            Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?
>
> What does he mean by that? The article was
>
>                    <84abs21gyd.fsf@blade3.toledo.com>
>
> on comp.lang.haskell.

You quoted some text at the end of the article, but you did not write a
reply after that.

You can customize the `message-syntax-checks' variable. Add
`quoting-style' to turn off this feature.

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Daniel Jensen]

I wrote:

> You can customize the `message-syntax-checks' variable. Add
> `quoting-style' to turn off this feature.

My apologies. This should read `(quoting-style . disabled)'.

Re: your text should follow quoted text

[Daniel C. Bastos]

daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:

> dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:
> 
> > Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me 
> >
> >            Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?
> >
> > What does he mean by that? The article was
> >
> >                    <84abs21gyd.fsf@blade3.toledo.com>
> >
> > on comp.lang.haskell.
> 
> You quoted some text at the end of the article, but you did not write a
> reply after that.

Hm, I see; it considers top-posting any chunk not answered. Sometimes
you don't want to comment a final chunk of the previous poster, but want
to leave that in case the poster would like to make reference to it
again. Thanks for ``quoting-style.''