Hi all!
Someone please reply to this message fully quoting it so Dr. Ruud will receive
it.
On Sunday 28 Mar 2010 13:51:15 Dr.Ruud wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Shlomi,
> >
> > Sorry to butt in here... I've been noticing that notation:
> >
> > {{{
> >
> > bla
> >
> > }}}
> >
> > A few times recently in threads here.
> >
> > I'm not a dedicated reader here; only from time to time, so probably
> > missed a thread sometime back explaining what that notation means.
> >
> > Also googling it isn't so easy either, something like
> >
> > perl '{{{'
> >
> > Shows many hits, but it's not apparent that any of them are going to
> > explain that usage, so would be a long time slogging to find some
> > explanation.
> >
> > Can you explain what that notation means? Hopefully there are other
> > readers in the dark too, who may appreciate it.
>
> Heheh, it made me put him or her in my ignore list (da dungeon),
I'm a guy:
* http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#guy_or_girl
* http://www.shlomifish.org/personal.html
> because I just can't stand that mess.
>
I don't understand why you haven't told me how you feel about it and suggested
a better way to include quotations and code in one's messages if this is the
case. By putting me on your ignore list, you won't get my messages and will
risk having duplicate messages, or not reading parts of the conversation, or
not fixing my errors.
In all the years I've been using Internet mail (since ~1995), I have only
placed one person in a mark-as-read-and-put-in-a-dedicated-mail-folder-which-
I-don't-usually-read filter and that was after he had insulted and slandered
me in public. Also see:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hackers-il/message/2749
> http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/nquote.shtml Q10 :)
This FAQ discusses top-posting, quoting style, etc. which I try really hard
not to violate. The 10th question reads "Q10: Shouldn't we be paying attention
to what a person says, rather than the cosmetic details of how it's said?" and
I agree with it, but I don't see why delimiting quotes or code with visual
"{{{" and "}}}" visual delimiters is bad. I'd rather not use leading ">"
because these are reserved for quoting messages.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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