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
next 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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