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Re: posting oddities (was: <dcx is cool!>
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:39:19 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
In lugnet.admin.nntp, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
Gotta remember to check the format box every time, I guess, I didn't want FTX
for that post.

Unless there were a way to default it or make it more obvious...less surprises.

How does it work now? Based on what the previous post was set to? That usually
makes sense I guess, I just got bit by it.

While I have your ear, what's up with putting my text at the
bottom? I know Steve B asked about it, but you can see that in this case, I
clearly intended my remarks to go as a preface to the quoted text...

In 7486?  You wanted to top-post 28 lines of new content atop 3 lines of
original content?  Not sure which article you're referring to.

in 7487... (http://news.lugnet.com/org/ca/rtltoronto/?n=7487) the new content
there is "in the below example..." so it belongs on top. That's where I put it.

is there a
way to suppress that behaviour of putting text at the bottom?

There are ways you could trick it.

Perhaps by adding a character somewhere in the middle of the quoted text?

That would be one way.

Any others?



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  Re: posting oddities (was: <dcx is cool!>
 
(...) Yah. (...) By adding something at the bottom that doesn't look like a sig (i.e., something that doesn't begin with "-- "). Would you prefer a button-clickie or something to override it and say, "Yes, thank you, I know what I'm doing and I (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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  Re: posting oddities (was: <dcx is cool!>
 
(...) Unless there were a way to default it or make it more obvious...less surprises. (...) In 7486? You wanted to top-post 28 lines of new content atop 3 lines of original content? Not sure which article you're referring to. (...) There are ways (...) (21 years ago, 2-Jun-03, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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