Hello Steve,
SL> No. The standard convention is to have quotes preceded with the > symbol.
There are different ways to communicate, to write emails, to quote. I
quote the way I want to. I exchange emails with enough people from
enough countries with enough experience that I decide how to quote in
what situation. If you can't cope with my quoting, don't read it. I am
open to new ideas from other people, you obviously need your standard.
If there would be a rule for jumping off a brindge, you probably
would use it.
SL> It has been that way for almost as long as I can remember.
'it has always been that way - and this is the way it should be! Our
grand-grand-grand father did it that way. Change is bad.'
SL> So let's just say for well over a decade and a half that is how things are done in
this
SL> medium.
This is how you do it. 'Change is bad. I'm not that flexible'.
SL> Because the standard convention in the printed medium when quoting someone is
radically different
SL> than here.
Steve, what are you talking about? What convention? I can't believe
this. 'Change is bad!'
>> The idea of exchanging news, opinions or help is similar. I read mails from
>> other people, I read my paper mail, postcards, I answer email, paper mail,
>> postcards and even news from news.xxx.yyy .
SL> And, your point? None of that refutes my statement that the way that they
SL> are traditionally dealt with are radically different.
'Traditionally'?? 'Change is bad!'
>> Right! He answered to 'the ideology' with technical aspects, because
>> there are no visual (or 'ideology') differences!
SL> Uh, yes, there are. Scoring, for one.
Where?
SL> You didn't make that clear. I read it that you was saying that TB! was A+
SL> software engineering. I do not consider it so given that it doesn't even
SL> conform to the standard CUA keys for marking items in a list context.
Standard? CUA? Tradition? Is this the reason why you don't want new
features in TheBat! ? You are everywhere talking about conventions,
standards. It sounds to me that your 'decade and a half' in this
'culture' have made you inflexible. I help dozens of people from each
age to start working with their computer, the internet, email, ftp and
so on. It sometimes is hard to convince them to use and respect some
conventions that make internet easier, but standards and conventions
is not all there is in live. That black/white glasses is not good....!
Your 'standard'-mail really made me look astonished.
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With best regards,
Claudius Regn mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using The Bat! 1.38e under Windows 98 4.10 Build 1998
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