From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 09:51:11 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia
X-Git-Tag: v1.0.0~343
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b2a6fd5cd6faa5a37ec3380b393c4799d30eb9c

view: reference posting style article on Wikipedia

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
---

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 9d48dfcb..8487c2ad 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):