-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-11 at 08:34 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
Let's see, let's do an experiment shall we?
here is part of one of my replies
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Here's part of another reply using the "normal" way:
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Same amount of area being taken up. Seen way worst ones about. I don't know, maybe it is JUST me, but I'm usualy reading what someone says instead of what's sitting on the left margin! :-D
It's not a question of area. The ">" is standard and understood by mail programs. For instance, some may use one color for new text, another for ">" quoted text, another for ">>" quoted text, etc. We are used to that quoting style, so a different one like yours is distracting. Also, if I get a text like:
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quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote
I can automatically reflow it with two keystrokes (^J^J):
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quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote
because the program knows how to handle it. If I try with your text: (^_^) quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote (^_^) quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote I get this garbled thing instead: (^_^) quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote (^_^) quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote See? :-) What I'm surprised is that it took us so long to tell you ;-) :-P Now, the quoting style I would like to use would be this other one: CRB> quote quote quote but unfortunately it is not handled properly by current mail programs; the second level is changed thus by my Pine:
CRB> quote quote quote
which is incorrect, it should be: CRB>> quote quote quote But that is Fidonet style, not email style, it seems. Or it is Pine which is broken, dunno. The advantage is knowing better who said what. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFz4JZtTMYHG2NR9URAoz1AKCOJdLhQgXDHJEXe+gcrGd0fNFEIwCbB5CR R7UR2Y6+2VXdAP3QPoaArkM= =HFOt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org