From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/560 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Benjamin Rutt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: posting terminology (was: Automagically fixing replies to bottom quoters?) Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:32:33 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Message-ID: References: <3cfb85b8$1_4@nopics.sjc> <3cfbb346$1_2@nopics.sjc> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667518 7430 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:31:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:31:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:27:46 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!out.nntp.be!propagator2-SanJose!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: eta.cis.ohio-state.edu Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VAO9HI53Z953ZwwI+1f9Knolgoc= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:700 Original-Lines: 17 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 700 Tue Jan 17 17:27:46 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:560 Archived-At: Kruskal writes: >> I'm confused, don't you mean top posters in the above question? >> Aren't bottom posting and bottom quoting two different things? > > My mistake. Should be top-posters (or I guess, bottom-quoters). :) > I was so fed up with it I couldn't even name it properly. I know the feeling, it is maddening! Maybe gnus could do its part in preventing people from top-posting, just like it prevents people from posting lines without subjects or lines >= 79 characters. Maybe a warning could be issued if there is no original text below at least one quoted part (ignoring signature). I think that basically defines top-posting. -- Benjamin