Re: top & bottom posting

[Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com>]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, me@privacy.net wrote:
> ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>) 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.

I started using this a few weeks ago.
(setq gnus-treat-hide-citation t)

Collapses all cited text to a [+].  You need to then have `W W c` handy
to uncollapse.  You could make gnus notice you are in a group with
mainly outlook users and this would come in "real" handy.
-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.