On 05/23/2016 11:08 PM, Dale wrote: > Jonathan Callen wrote: >> On 05/23/2016 12:39 AM, Dale wrote: >>> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >>>> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot >>>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 13:45:55 +0200 >>>> From: Michał Górny <[email protected]> >>>> Reply-To: [email protected] >>>> Organization: Gentoo >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm no longer willing to maintain sys-boot/gummiboot and this makes it >>>> maintainer-needed. The package is no longer maintained upstream, >>>> and has been merged into systemd. It seems that there are still people >>>> using it without systemd though, so I'm not going to lastrite it >>>> myself, and prefer getting a new maintainer for it. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best regards, >>>> Michał Górny >>>> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> >>> This was posted on -dev a few days ago. I'm pretty sure there are >>> some users here that use this and so far, no one has stepped up to take it. >>> If one of the users who uses this wants to keep it available, may want >>> to see if you, and maybe some other helpers, can help maintain it. >>> >>> Just thought I would pass this on in case no one was aware. >>> >>> Dale >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >>> P. S. I'm not sure how this is going to be formatted. It looks odd at >>> the moment. :/ >> >> The magic to getting things like this to format correctly is to remove >> the line that is exactly "-- " (dash-dash-space) and everything >> following it -- or to ensure that that line is quoted somehow. Most >> text email clients treat that string as a signature indicator, and >> assume that everything following it isn't very important, just boilerplate. >> > > > My concern was whether it would show what was my text and what was the > original since they both looked the same. It didn't quote like it > normally would but it is fairly obvious as to who said what. > > The biggest thing, I wanted to let folks know that if someone doesn't > step up that this package may die. I don't use it myself, although I've > considered switching to it, but know others on this list do use it. > Some of them likely have the skills to handle this if they have time and > choose too. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > >
My client decided that everything after the "-- " line was part of the signature of the original (forwarded) email, and put it and all that followed in a very light gray on white, nearly unreadable. It appears that your client wants you to use TOFU [Top-post Over, Full-quote Under] for forwards, even though it allows other formats for replies. -- Jonathan Callen
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