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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:58:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160630095834.2723-3-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160630095834.2723-1-e@80x24.org>

Storage is precious when it is forever and distributed.

And public-inbox aims to not only end Eternal September(*),
but to build a world less-centralized than Usenet ever was:
forkable discussion groups

(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
---
 lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 9d48dfc..8487c2a 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ sub msg_reply {
 	my ($ctx, $hdr) = @_;
 	my $se_url =
 	 'https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html';
+	my $p_url =
+	 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style';
 
 	my ($arg, $link) = mailto_arg_link($hdr);
 	push @$arg, '/path/to/YOUR_REPLY';
@@ -65,6 +67,10 @@ plain-text email using any one of the following methods:
   and reply-to-all from there: <a
 href=raw>mbox</a>
 
+  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
+  <a
+href="$p_url">$p_url</a>
+
 * Reply to all the recipients using the <b>--to</b>, <b>--cc</b>,
   and <b>--in-reply-to</b> switches of git-send-email(1):
 
-- 
EW


      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-30  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-30  9:58 [PATCH 0/2] view: reply instruction tweaks Eric Wong
2016-06-30  9:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] view: improve readability of msg_reply with here-doc Eric Wong
2016-06-30  9:58 ` Eric Wong [this message]

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