Ted Zlatanov <[email protected]> writes: > 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
With all due respect, not on usenet it isn't. In emails it is. Although initials prior to the ">", annoying as I do find them :-;, are much preferential to zero quoting or top posting! _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
