From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9027 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "St. Suika Fenderson Roberts" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: A small, but useful patch! Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 16:28:53 -0600 Message-ID: <199611282228.QAA78694@rs5.tcs.tulane.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149114 16026 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:25:14 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 16956 invoked from smtpd); 28 Nov 1996 22:35:02 -0000 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@129.240.64.2) by deanna.miranova.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 1996 22:35:02 -0000 Original-Received: from rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (rs5.tcs.tulane.edu [129.81.224.56]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 23:24:57 +0100 Original-Received: (wrobert2@localhost) by rs5.tcs.tulane.edu (8.6.12/8.5) id QAA78694; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 16:28:53 -0600 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9027 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 ^^; ) -- 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