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* [PATCH 2/2] view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia
  2016-06-30  9:58  5% [PATCH 0/2] view: reply instruction tweaks Eric Wong
@ 2016-06-30  9:58  7% ` Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2016-06-30  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

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


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* [PATCH 0/2] view: reply instruction tweaks
@ 2016-06-30  9:58  5% Eric Wong
  2016-06-30  9:58  7% ` [PATCH 2/2] view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia Eric Wong
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ results
From: Eric Wong @ 2016-06-30  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: meta

It may be 2016, but top-posting still makes me cringe :<

Eric Wong (2):
      view: improve readability of msg_reply with here-doc
      view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia

 lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)


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