[ Tony's unattended mail Wrote On Tue 27.Nov'12 at 16:45:58 GMT ]

> On 2012-11-27, Jamie Paul Griffin <ja...@kode5.net> wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry but you've lost me again :-) - both of you
> 
> There are two kinds of people:
> 
>   1) Those who oppose ambiguity
>   2) Those who are wrong
> 
> Now those who oppose ambiguity want quotes to be trimmed, with a
> direct reply underneath so there is no ambiguity on which comment the
> response addresses.  Those who oppose ambiguity also want unambiguous
> EOLs, so the end of a line cannot be confused with an authors
> misguided attempt to use the EOL as a crutch for a poor rendering
> tool.
> 
> Those in group 2 expect the readers to do the work -- they want the
> reader to deal with figuring out what reply references what comment,
> and guess about where lines need to (re)wrap, and where line breaks
> should be honored.

ok, thanks for clarifying that. Seems a very rigit method of judging a
person but hey, i'm sure you're right. 

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