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   ***^\     ."_)~~
 ~( __ _"o   Was another beautiful day, Fri, 26 Aug 2005,
   @  @      at 00:09:42 +0200, when Roelof Otten wrote:

>>> Not sure what you mean. I just deleted the empty line between them,
>>> because I don't like non functional empty lines between my quotes.

MM>> ...then it's a bit sloppy and hard to read, and particularly if you
MM>> are routinely going to reformat (Ctrl+L) just one of the levels
MM>> wanting it in your reply, it (oops!) reformats all of them inside
MM>> the bunch/cluster.

MM>> I couldn't imagine that someone is that mean to do that...hm,
MM>> manually.

> No matter of meanness and no new feature, just a matter of taste.

Just in case, it was a joke, not about a real meanness (but if I
discover...).

I couldn't agree though that it's a matter of taste, even of a bad one,
but rather a matter of orthography. Even your original, not quoted, text
in many of your messages is lacking separation of paragraphs (no empty
lines between nor a "tabs" -- look also at your "Now you've..." and "I'm
CC..." here near to the bottom of the message). It's hard to read and
sorely resembles the orthography manners of Outlook-ers.

It also happens when one quotes a HTML message to a plain text reply,
when the text is losing the empty lines between paragraphs giving thus
the very same effect discussed here. Being that they still mangle
something with this TB's HTML editor, I supposed that it might be
possible reason, hence my question.

> Note that I don't do it here, as it would be unclear that I quoted two
> paragraphs (and deleted the one in between).

For "in between" there are <snip> marks, no?

> You should realize that on this list you're supposed to trim quotes.
> (preferably to a bare minimum <g>)

To a bare minimum which shows the context we refer to. There you see
above how the text is readable and orderly, much more easier for
reading, so one has not to guess and speculate where the new paragraph
begins. Remove all empty lines here and try to read? <g>

> <moderator on>
> Now you've done it. We're totally off topic.
> I'm CC-ing this to tbot and that's where replies should be sent.

Oops! We were not OT at all, since we were discussing a text formatting
in TB.

What shall we do now? :eyes: To fling this CC tutti completi with the
trouty back?

>     )<)))'> __________
>   \________/
> <moderator off>

Nice pot, BTW. Watch out. <g>

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