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