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Hi Januk,
On 26 September 2000 at 17:44:55 GMT -0700 (which was 01:44 where I
live) Januk Aggarwal wrote and made these points on the subject
of "dealing with digests - yet another question":
JA> In the context of digests, I agree. However, what if I want to
JA> comment on somebody's current cookie? Maybe I got a real charge
JA> out of it and jut had to make an electrifying retort. Nothing
JA> negative, all positive comments of course.[1]
What a shocking array of puns you have generated! The battery I have
suffered is terminal. Let's see if I can spark some a-cord.
>> A message ends at the signature.
JA> I disagree, especially when one's signature is dynamic with
JA> cookies, PS's and other stuff that people like to put down there.
Now I always put PS's above the signature for that very reason. The
signature cut mark is where the text is supposed to stop. Anything
below that is, by definition, for discarding from a reply. If it is
not discardable, it should be above the cut.
JA> Plus since I'm specifically *telling* TB what to quote, why should
JA> it override my judgement? It's up to me to gauge the situation,
JA> no?
That's a fair comment but...
JA> .... here is a copy of Marck's cookie from the message I responded
JA> to: Note that I had to cut and paste it despite my selection
JA> attempts.
>> Headline - Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge
The "exception that proves the rule" IMHO. Separate cut and paste is
the right thing to do because - look - it's just one line hidden away
in all the 2 lines of attribution, a rule, 3 lines of sig block, a
joke, another rule and the TB version info I always post here. You had
to copy and paste one line instead of having to do two mark and delete
operations on the whole sig block.
You could be right to an extent but I would suggest that, for the
number of times you would actually *want* to quote back the signature
en-masse, it would be so few and far between that I wouldn't to spare
the hotkey / menu option / code space / development time involved in
actually supporting the functionality.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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