Re: Inserting attribution at a better point

[Mats Lofdahl <lofdahl@usa.net>]

Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> Mats Lofdahl <lofdahl@usa.net> writes:
> 
> > But why destroy the citations for everybody?  Wouldn't it be
> > better to post with the multiple level standard citation style and
> > have gnus optionally _present_ the stuff the way you want it on
> > your screen?  And move the attributions around any way you want.
> > Surely it would be as easy to write a article "washing" routine
> > that did this?
> 
> Well, it can't happen automatically.

Why?  Isn't all the necessary information present if you use the
multiple level citation style?

> And I did say `WIBNI if Gnus provided support for this, too?'.  This
> does not imply to remove support for the now standard citation
> style!

My point is that if you follow up to a message with multiple level
citations and change them in the way you suggest, then that
information is destroyed.  So whomever wants to reply to _your_
message is forced to keep your citation style.  

_I_ don't think that is nice.

> Just suppose some people prefer to cite similar to the way Erik
> Naggum does, my suggestion was to have some support for this in
> Gnus.

If these people prefer that kind of citations, then why not make the
destruction local to their own screen?

-- 
 Mats Löfdahl

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