From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line wrap problem Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:26 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3E7755EC.9060506@free.fr> <3E783093.4070406@free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048120563 16468 80.91.224.249 (20 Mar 2003 00:36:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:36:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 01:36:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vo2L-0004H6-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 01:36:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18vo20-0007fr-01 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:35:40 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!ps01-sjc1.MISMATCH!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!news03.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com!news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-From: Le Wang Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.1 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.192.199.86 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com Original-X-Trace: news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com 1048120466 24.192.199.86 (Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:34:26 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:34:26 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111236 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:7736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7736 Colin Marquardt wrote: > Pierre Albarede writes: > >> Attention : the other guy told us, not to post on the other newsgroup >> comp.emacs. > > Uhm, that's not what Le Wang meant. Look at my signature. Right. Le Wang doesn't have a problem with cross-posting to other relevant newsgroups. Le has to look at people top-post all day with brain-dead Notes, so this is a especially touchy issue for him. To elaborate on Piet's reply, as to why it confuses people: the normal flow of a discussion in e-mail or newsgroups is you insert the quotation you're responding to and write your reply BENEATH it. Insert some more, write some more, so on and so forth. The discussion becomes impossible to follow if some people post before the quotation, in contradiction to the accepted norm. -- Le