Let's think about what you're asking for a minute. There are very few on the
list who care to spend the energy to participate at all. such lurkers
undoubtedly have valuable opinions. But there's some hurdle of effort (or
unwillingness) that prevents them from expressing those opinions. Of
"... to standardize things across email clients (e.g. the quotation prefix and
"quote" line, plain text vs. html, character encodings)?"
My favorite is that Outlook's re-encoding of :-) shows up as the letter J.
That kind of defeats the original purpose of text art -- that it is portable
On 10/28/2016 02:00 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
The biggest challenge (I think) to leaving all the text included (other than just
text/data bloat) is that many of us aren't responding to the entire linear text of every
response that came before... we are often responding only to part of it which
In reaction to Nick's question, I re-installed VM (https://launchpad.net/vm),
which I used to use. I think you used gnus, but maybe RMAIL... I used to
generate digests to store or forward various threads and such back when I used
VM. It doesn't seem to work the way I remember it, though. I
Hi, Owen, and all,
You have me right. There’s a big difference between entertaining a question –
noodling, if you will – and demanding an answer.
Confession time: I come from a world in which success is measured out in
published writing. That’s not the only world, but it’s a
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Read: "I am large I contain multitudes." Like, say, an amygdala and a
frontal cortex, the latter remarking on the
Glen -
I am a Mozilla/Tbird Man myself but am used to many people clinging to
very oldschool text-only (or worse?) mail tools. I also don't have any
trouble sorting the complexity of comment/response/inlining/inclusion in
my head for the most part, but that is how my head works... I think
Glen -
Just to help ensure my sanity, my email subject window looks like this:
https://goo.gl/photos/thJWHVxy8cfPv3Qq7
I've always assumed everyone else's does too... So, when one looks at
the content of a mailing list like this, they can _see_ trees of
threads, right? If not, I highly
At the very minimum, nick wants to take an email exchange and render it as a
"correspondence", in the classic literary sense: i.e., in the order in which
it was written. Because all the messages would be on the page in front of
you, no quotation would be necessary, except possibly in the case of
That's why I recommend trying it by hand on a thread of interest.
Basically this is a form of "storyboarding", look at the sequence of steps
needed for the desired "correspondence".
The fine details emerge and help set the direction of the project more
clearly.
-- Owen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016
Marcus -
What a wonderfully cryptic yet compelling explanation/example? Are you
suggesting a certain grandiosity? Or another way of alluding to the
ambiguity I am suggesting? Or perhaps an emotional wanting vs a more
intellectual wanting?
"Enquiring megalo-minds are wanting to
For the TL;DR crowd, a summary of my last response might be as simple as
"I am wanting" == Idle Speculation
"I want" == Statement of Intent
On 10/28/16 4:45 PM, glen ☣ wrote:
On 10/28/2016 03:10 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
I've always assumed everyone else's does too... So, when one
Glen,
With a thread of any complexity it all, it becomes very tedious and tricky.
However, you are right that just a few conventions observed by email writers
could make it a lot easier. Let's say you began every one of your messages
with" BEGIN GLEN" (just above the header) and
Sorry to be pedestrian, but how about the OP's desire to convert thread(s)
into posts/correspondence?
I take Nick seriously here, it has been his goal from the beginning, right?
-- Owen
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> Glen -
>
> I am a
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