Re: Hiding of -----original message----- citations?

[Andreas Fuchs <asf@acm.org>]

On 22 Mar 2000 21:48:52 +0100, Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> said:
> I don't know how and where to implement this but a really nice feature
> would be to swicth order, remove the quoted .sig and do some other
> cleaning of the article.

Yes, but this is highly non-trivial. If I understood gnus's washing
methods correctly, the message is parsed on a per-line basis, which
means that with a format like this:

Message
^original-messsage-marker$
Message
^sig-delimiter$
Signature
^often-wrong-sig-delimiter$
Signature

and Outlook, which, IIRC, does not even use quote-prefixes (> or
similar) by default, you stand no chance to actually get it right,
because it is just not clear which line (after the
original-message-marker) belongs to which message.

> Inserting a text before the message refering the poster to RFC1855
> (the netiquette) and
> <URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/message/editing.html> would
> also be nice.

Phew. I was not making myself clear in the first place: I was talking
about hiding it only when reading the article, not when Replying to
it. But it would be practical to also have it when replying and
following up.

(BTW: I have found http://learn.to/quote (german only, sorry) highly
helpful in this matter, it is not only easier to type than the above
URL, it also gets the message across[1] (-:)

> /Jonas, who has battled many wars against the lusers.

I trust you were victorious (-8

[1] although someone really should translate it. (I can't volunteer,
    too much work in school at the moment)[2]
[2] BTW, is there a way to get xemacs's footnote-mode working in
    Gnumacs? I have tried the 1.12 version in the packages/ directory,
    but it crashed emacs (abort signal) when trying to rotate
    styles. Inserting footnotes did not work, too: it tried to access
    a negative list index (?). Oh well, inserting these beasts
    manually works too (-:

kind regards,
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