+1 on redundant replies. > wish is that the WWW interface supported composing in a > monospaced font
What's the difference? It shows up for the recipient in whatever font they choose, typically monospaced. > that submitters turn off "smart" quotes Why? Because "pure" ASCII is ordained somewhere? Should they turn off their Hebrew or Chinese names too? Unicode rulz, dude! Readability rulz! I agree -- it looks better that way. "Dumb" quotes are an artifact of typewriters and 6- or 7-bit character sets. Real type has used "smart" quotes for centuries. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, June 26, 2020 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New Mainframe Community On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:46:06 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >There *are* IMHO some problems with IBMMAIN but it is not clear to me that >they are significant enough to worry about nor that some new forum would >necessarily be better overall. > >- Searchability. The archives leave a lot to be desired in this regard IMHO. >- Topic drift. There is something of tendency for many threads here to drift >into hardware nostalgia, sometimes with the effect of obscuring the original >question. There are often answers here from people who did not read the >original question. > Conversely, redundant replies from people who read only the original question which has already been sufficiently answered. I can wish for the ancient USENET etiquette of replying directly to originator who is responsible for following up with a summary. >A better "threaded" interface would help prevent this. > Examples: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-January/thread.html https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2020-01/ C'mon, LISTSERV. >- Lack of formatting. Yeah, I know a lot of old-timers love plain text (let >the flames begin!) but most modern fora have the ability to set off code >examples at the very least. I think that would be useful here. > To that end, my simplest wish is that the WWW interface supported composing in a monospaced font. C'mon, LISTSERV. And, of course, that submitters turn off "smart" quotes. Such problems exist even in IBM Reference Manuals. I went to RCF on one such and got the reply that it looks better that way. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
