From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1625 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: me@privacy.net (Andrew J. Korty) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: top & bottom posting Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:17:40 -0500 Organization: Indiana University Message-ID: References: <84znr6s2dr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87n0n52yb1.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> <87el8h2g5b.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668346 12096 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.man.poznan.pl!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news.uchicago.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu Original-X-Trace: rainier.uits.indiana.edu 1040138259 19413 134.68.5.17 (17 Dec 2002 15:17:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news-admin@indiana.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:17:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ieDtci+RyO0Sujy01u79e/1sy/E= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1765 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1765 Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1625 Archived-At: ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl ) writes: > This whole discussion has ignored one very important thing: top-posting > is to be _very_ strongly discouraged. It is _poor_ style, hard to read, > difficult to understand and leads to over-long posts--and thus, wastes > of bandwidth. It has no good points. So if gnus makes it difficult, > this is actually a Good Thing, believe it or not. Does Gnus have any predefined capacity to invert top-posted threads? I *hate* trying to read backwards through a long discussion from a group of Outlook users. I've tried gnus-outlook-deuglify-article, but it doesn't usually do much. -- Andrew J. Korty, Principal Security Engineer Office of the Vice President for Information Technology Indiana University