On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:18:15 +0300 Teemu Likonen <[email protected]> wrote:
TL> On 2009-09-14 10:55 (-0500), Ted Zlatanov wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:59:03 +0200 Slackrat <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Would you be willing to share your method of getting the poster's >>> initials to preceed the quotted texf as per above? >> >> Supercite will do it. It looks bad in Outlook and web interfaces, >> though, so choose your audience carefully. TL> A minor rant: I think nobody should use Supercite and its "TL> " or TL> "Teemu> " quoting. OK. TL> As everybody knows the de facto standard is "> " (with nesting) and TL> it's the most widely supported style. People are used to read nestes TL> >'s so it's the easiest style to read and understand. If you TL> (general "you") want to write messages for other people (not just TL> for yourself or for other limited audience) then please use the TL> standard and forget about all weird custom stuff. TL> There are some groups of people who tend to use bad quotations: TL> Microsoft Outlook users, Gmail users, Emacs Rmail and Supercite users. On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:28:39 +0200 Richard Riley <[email protected]> wrote: RR> Agreed 100%. Some usenet groups have become almost unreadable because of RR> "custom" indent or indent not being used at all. Some MS SW users dont RR> indent at all and just followup after a "-------" seperator or often RR> nothing at all. Truly horrible. RR> While freedom and choice is good, making it too easy for people to break RR> standards using something like gnus is not a good way forward IMO. Sorry, but we'll have to disagree. Feel free to use any prefix you like, but I find the person's initials valuable as a quoting prefix, especially in reply to multiple posts as you see above. Also, if by "de facto" you mean "used by the majority," top-quoting Outlook-style is the de facto standard. Ted _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
