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From: "St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" <wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>
Subject: Re: A small, but useful patch!
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 16:28:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199611282228.QAA78694@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu> (raw)

Kai Wrote:
> >>>>> Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk) wrote:

>   Per> The quote is: ``in *reading* agents''.  I don't think we yet
>   Per> can assume that everybody are using Gnus to read the messages.

> >>>>> Hrvoje Niksic writes:

>   Hrvoje> Why not?  The person who uses 'message-indent-citation
>   Hrvoje> probably also uses message, i.e. Gnus.

> You use Gnus.  You write a message using 'message-indent-citation.
> You send the message to John Smith.  In what way can you deduce from
> this that John Smith uses Gnus, too?  The idea is that *his* reader
> can easily skip quoted text.

The only real problem I see here is that _no_ mail/news reader that I
know of has such a function.  This, to my POV, renders quote-prefixing
blank lines rather pointless.  Besides which, the SOR states one should
use `>' instead of indentation to mark cited text . . .

ja ne,
	Suika (being heretical.  BSD mail and vim ^_^ features or speed ^^; )
--
	  	<wrobert2@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>
Zou-Morrigu, goddess of elephant war.  Yeah, yeah, it's cheesy.  But
why else would I need to know a Celtic goddesses name?  Hmmm?
						--Gin Daizou, atashi no imouto


             reply	other threads:[~1996-11-28 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-11-28 22:28 St. Suika Fenderson Roberts [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-11-27 15:57 Hrvoje Niksic
1996-11-27 16:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-11-27 18:39   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-11-27 18:51     ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-11-28  9:19       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-11-28  9:47         ` Kai Grossjohann
1996-11-28  9:53           ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-11-28 10:00             ` Kai Grossjohann

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