Re: Using idiosyncratic quoting styles in mail

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

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>>> "DR" == David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>>>>> "DA" == Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org> writes:

>>> Both approaches are equally fundamentally broken in their premise,
>>> but
>>> the latter is at least easy ignorable recipient-side.
>> 
>> I am not sure I understand, why you consider the use case of
>> replying to several
>> recipient with the same mail, as fundamentally broken?

> I believe there may have been sarcasm involved, and I believe the
> point was something similar to "Using any kind of quoting marks 
> that are not handled automatically by everyone's email client, is
> almost as bad as sending them html - so in the same way that you 
> kindly send plain text instead of html, please also kindly use
> built-in automatic quoting marks only".

I thought that, but then I hoped he had some magic lisp code hidden
somewhere. BTW talking about idiosyncratic styles: 

Wouldn't that cover the use of *very long (more than 80 chars) lines* which
some client, such as gnus, rather prefer not to send, at least they emit
a warning. Just a thought.....

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