<to...@tuxteam.de> writes: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:58:32PM -0700, David Masterson wrote: >> yaxp <y...@cock.li> writes: >> >> > Hello, >> > >> > Which posting style is preferable in this list? >> > >> > Top or Bottom. >> >> A decades old argument. Top makes it easier for many mail readers to >> slice off all the previous thread history (which the reader has in >> previous messages). Bottom makes it easier to have thread context in >> the message, >> >> Most Emacs related mailing lists / newsgroups prefer bottom. > > Let me add that top posting, while it might kind-of-work for personal > mail breaks down spectacularly in mailing lists. > > A mixture of both is worse,of course :-) > > Cheers
Assuming the quoting of previous postings works (above there seems to be a discrepancy between '>>' and '> >', although Gnus seems to handle that), is there some sort of 'bottom-postify' command which would reorder the quotes? I occasionally do this by hand if I find the text makes no sense to me otherwise. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under constuction.
