Hallo Werner,
On Monday, October 04, 1999, 5:13:40 PM, Werner Arts wrote:
TF>>>>>>>> This TB does not know whether anything is a name or another string of
TF>>>>>>>> characters, it will assume that everything in front of a ">" is
TF>>>>>>>> suposed to be there, and the quote only starts after this character.
WA>>>>>>> In this case the additional ">" would be wrong.
[snip]
I'm leaving the above two lines in to make my point.
WA> Look at the above Text. This is really confusing. None is able to
WA> decide, *who* said *what*.
In the beginning of this thread, you had your reply template set on
"initials". And it was very easy to see who said what, that's the
reason for the initials.
Later you changed to "greater than only" (which is the standard in a
lot of other mail programmes) and that's why it is difficult to see
who said what. And that's why I like The Bat!.
>> I cannot come up with another idea, though.
WA> The same quoting mark at the beginning of *each* quoted line.
WA> *Nothing* else is correct.
WA> Below i can show, what happens:
|Inserting a ">>>>>" *into* a quoted line changes the original text
WA> ^
|WA>> ^^
WA> ^^ These characters should be below |">>|
WA> By adding a different number of characters *somewhere* into the quoted
text (">>" *into* the first line, "WA> " to the beginning of the second
WA> line the sense of the quoted text really becomes ruined.
OK, you found a situation where it gets in the way. You can still trun
it off, though. ;-)
WA> This behavior makes "The Bat" unusable for serious applications
WA> (science, business ....).
I don't know about science, I guess it depends on whether you use a
lot of "greater than" in your emails. If so, you will turn the feature
"initials" off. In business, I use it with initials every day and love
it. So do my agents and overseas offices, when they see their initials
before the mails they's written; especially since third and fourth
parties are often copied in and reply. If everybody used TB! (wouldn't
that be a nice world <g>), everybody would know who wrote what. Yes,
especially in business it is indeed *very* useful.
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Cheers,
Thomas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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