From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Citing text tutorials and practices? Supercite?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:09:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zkicgidd.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2mxeuskix.fsf@boostpro.com>
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> Doesn't the option to add citation "noise" belong on the receiving end
> of the email connection? I'm surprised nobody has created a "supercite
> washer" for Gnus that lets people view citations in whatever fancy way
> they choose without imposing it on everyone else.
Yeah, I don't like supercite. Quoted text should be simply ">", and
then the receiver can display that however they want. Supercite is the
number one reason why it's virtually impossible to handle cited text
automatically.
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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-10 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-27 16:58 Johnny
2011-08-27 18:10 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-27 18:35 ` Richard Riley
2011-08-27 17:50 ` Johnny
2011-08-27 19:00 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-27 18:19 ` Johnny
2011-08-27 19:48 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-10 22:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-09-27 22:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-28 10:22 ` Adam Sjøgren
2011-08-29 1:33 ` jidanni
2011-08-29 14:25 ` Wes Hardaker
2011-08-28 5:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-08-28 9:01 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-08-28 9:35 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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