On 1/7/06, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Sharp wrote:
> > On 1/7/06, Morten Nilsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> .. on a different note, it would be nice if you in the future snip
> >> quoted text.. had to scroll a few miles to get to your reply ;)
> >>
> >> and also, when making patches, make them unified (diff -u) please :)
> >
> > WELL! if were going to be correcting nettiquete: inline patches are
> > bad, a lot of mailers will throw in extra newlines so that they become
> > nearly useless. And they are annoying to scroll through. So, attach
>
> I did attach the patch, I never paste patches inline with mail text.

I blame google.. it comes here inlined for whatever reason.

> on that note, I personally detest attachments with a "binary" mime-type,
> as they force me to save the attached file to disk to read, even though
> it's plain text.. wasted time and resources.
>
> > patches. Also... that was your patch you had to scroll through, and it
> > was unified. the '>'s were quote marks.
>
> yes, but the original patch (first mail of this thread) was not unified.
> THAT is the patch I was referring to above.

oy, i have been put in my place on all counts... /me goes back to lurking. ;)

> and keeping in tune of this digression, your client doesn't strip
> signatures, and that's bad.
> .. with the sourceforge boilerplate added to each mail, it only takes
> 2-3 replies without stripping before the email becomes unwieldy long

I shall have to talk to google....

>
> Cheers,
> --
> Morten
> :wq


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