Re: Preferred posting style

[David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>]

"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 08:32:44AM +0100, Loris Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> ISTR there was something, not in the Emacs context, alas, and before
>> the First Internet Supernova (aka roughly Y2K, when Google had the
>> choice to either go bust or go evil).
>>
>> I guess it won't work, since proper "bottom posting" is a bit more
>> than just putting the whole kaboodle above and your two lines below. 
>
> That maybe true.  However, it would probably cover well over 90% of my
> uses-cases.  Often someone sends me a message, I bottom-post an
> interleaved reply, and then the other person top-posts their answer.  In
> this case would be enough just to move the other person's singly quoted,
> non-interleaved text to the bottom.

Interesting idea, but the formats of "top posting" done by the various
mail readers is not uniform making rearragement difficult and often not
satisfying.

> However I should probably raise the topic on the Gnus list rather than
> discussing it any further here.

Probably true.  They might have some tricks.

-- 
David Masterson