From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1630 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: top & bottom posting Date: 17 Dec 2002 21:20:14 -0600 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 1138668350 12121 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!newsfeed.news2me.com!novia!newscene!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: galen@GALEN Original-Sender: galenboyer@hotpop.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1770 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1770 Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1630 Archived-At: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, me@privacy.net wrote: > 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. 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.