On May 19, 2008, at 8:51 PM, David Hobby wrote:
> jon louis mann wrote:
>> // Thread hijacking is also considered bad form.
>> Comedy of errors Maru
>> Jon--
>> // Hi. I like the '>' characters. All you have to do
>> is count them to see who wrote what. Maybe it's a
>>
>> okay if i dbl // so i don't have to use the shift key, and cut and
>> past the post with your name at the end, or is that what william
>> means by thread hijacking? i tried to download thunderbird once.
>> i'm not that computer literate.
>>
> So you're going to start your own convention, that
> everything after a '//' is a quote, until you get
> to the name at the end? Why? I mean, there's a
> perfectly good method which almost everybody else
> uses.
Jon, I'd like to make a humble request that you consider adopting the
standard that is used by nearly everybody else on the Internet. As
you readily admit that you are "not that computer literate", perhaps
you will forgive my suggesting this article from the Jargon File, a
long-standing (and now somewhat aged, but still largely valid)
collection of information about Internet conventions:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/email-style.html
As the article says, "Inclusion practice is still evolving, and disputes
over the ‘correct’ inclusion style occasionally lead to holy wars", but
it seems that the issue of using right-angle-brackets is largely settled
as a convention that is supported by most email programs.
If you let us know what email program you use, I'll wager that one or
more of your list-mates could assist you -- if you wanted to be assisted
-- in configuring your emailer to use the long-agreed Internet
convention for indicating quotes.
Dave
IAAMOAC Maru
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