On 28/08/2022 22:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Wol <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote
character
> > only on the first line of a quote paragraph? It makes reading your
replies a
> > little difficult because it is not visible on first glance where
your quote
> > ends and your reply starts.
>
> Because the OPs mailer sent it as one line per paragraph?
>
> My mailer (Tbird) is configured for plain text, but still screws up when
> it receives html junk.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
My address is GMail, and I just use Chrome. Responding to this list
requires me to Ctrl-A and then remove ALL formatting which inserts
the greater than symbol.
For 99% of my life no one cares about how an email response is
formatted. The only place that complains is this list so I do all of
that above to try to make it better for the list.
Well, a lot of us are greybeards who predate HTML. Grumpy old greybeards
don't like change :-) and I include myself in that.
Maybe I made a mistake on the recent response that Frank
doesn't like? If it's happening on every email I send then what
Frank is seeing is not what I'm seeing.
In my experience it's easier to ride the Google horse in the
direction the Google horse is going. Turning off all formatting
causes too many problems in real life outside of Gentoo
email lists.
HTML is f*cked up for so many things (for which clueless idiots
recommend it). At work, living inside the GMail/Chrome eco-system is
mandatory. And I regularly swear at it because I get over-wide emails
that are a bastard to read.
My apologies,
Mark
Don't apologise - it's not your fault. If you use gmail/chrome, that's
fine. It would just be nice if Google didn't screw up your mail. The
really scary thing is all these things Google do behind your back are
capable of (and as far as the linux guys are concerned regularly do)
screwing up your security.
If you want to interact with linux devs you will find they are even more
anti-gmail than here - because what you are sending is not what you
think you are sending! But until then, don't beat yourself up over it.
Don't upset people unnecessarily, but if it causes you grief, don't do
it. If people don't like it, they can ignore it.
Cheers,
Wol
