From: David Moore <dmoore@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: filling the References header
Date: 16 May 1997 22:15:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rv3ermu1b5.fsf@sdnp5.ucsd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Roderick Schertler's message of 14 May 1997 13:16:11 -0400
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> writes:
> On 14 May 1997 03:11:34 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> said:
> >
> > Any way, it is understandable, as the continuation ``References'
> > actually caused problems some people, and the gain wasn't that big.
>
> Heck, if it makes life harder for the broken software while not bothering
> properly written software I'm all for it, especially since the result is
> more esthetically pleasing.
If their software is broken it hurts you too. Say you post something
with wrapped references. they reply to it, but their reader truncates
it. when you get that response it's no longer sorted correctly in
_your_ display.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-13 23:30 Roderick Schertler
1997-05-14 1:11 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-14 17:16 ` Roderick Schertler
1997-05-14 21:37 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1997-05-15 5:42 ` Steven L Baur
1997-05-15 20:43 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1997-05-15 21:52 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1997-05-15 21:54 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-05-16 18:27 ` Sudish Joseph
1997-05-17 3:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-17 7:35 ` Greg Stark
1997-05-19 0:26 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-19 4:18 ` Roderick Schertler
1997-05-20 20:17 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-05-17 16:14 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1997-05-19 0:28 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <5los45$gjs$1@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
1997-05-19 6:47 ` Andreas Jaeger
1997-05-20 16:59 ` Jason L Tibbitts III
1997-05-17 5:15 ` David Moore [this message]
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