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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Country: US X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 61A4511FFC X-Migadu-Scanner: mx12.migadu.com X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -4.16 X-Spam-Score: -4.16 X-TUID: 4/FXEK3by043 writes: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:58:32PM -0700, David Masterson wrote: >> yaxp 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.