Re: [Pan-users] top posting

[Charles Kerr]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:58:29PM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:35:15 -0400 in
> address@hidden "Carl L. Gilbert"
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Is their a way to get PAN to shut up about top posting?  Can PAN be
> > made to simply read news and leave the politics out?
> 
> You can do this if you modify the source code.
> 
> Official PAN will not do this as it would make PAN non-GNKSA compliant.

No need to hide behind the GNKSA here.  The bottom line is that
top-posting is poor Usenet style.  top-posting messages shouldn't
be prohibited by Pan, but it's reasonable to pop up a warning.

-- 
cheers,
Charles