Rob -- ...and then Rob 'Feztaa' Park said... % % On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 06:33:03PM -0500, David T-G (dis)graced my inbox with: % > % who uses email. And we need to devise a way so that when we quote email, % > % we quote it with _their_ quote character, not ours. That way we know who % > % wrote it, not who's replying to it ;) % > % > No, no, no... One doesn't quote oneself as one is initially speaking; % > someone else quotes you as he or she replies. The character-selection % > algorithm is correct as it stands. % % No, no, no... you're not understanding what I'm saying.
But I am! % % When you reply to a message, every line in the quote starts with a '%'. % That means that you're _replying_ to that text, not that you _wrote_ it. Exactly. And it makes sense for you to not quote yourself (or otherwise indicate what's your text) when you first write it, because that's what your From: and signature are for. % % Lets use the above quote as an example. One paragraph starts with >, and % the other with > %. Lets say, for the sake of argument, that % is your % quote character, and > is mine. % % This raises a problem: I didn't write what is quoted with the >, you % didn't. And you didn't write what is quoted with the %, /I/ did! Exactly. % % Obviously this system is flawed. It doesn't show us who _wrote_ what, it Nope. I still disagree. ... % order to do this, stuff that _I_ wrote needs to be prefixed with _my_ % quote character, not the character of the person replying to it. Now if *this* is what you want, just pump your entire message through a filter that prepends '>' or even 'RP>' before sending and you'll have quoted your own text *and* you'll look silly -- the email version of someone talking (or quoting himself) just to hear himself talk :-) % % So from now on, everybody has to use > when replying to me, and % when % replying to David. The rest of you can figure out your own quote % characters... No! Only I can use the percent character! Nobody else can use it; it should be stricken from your keyboards! NOOOOO! % % Get it? ;) We should probably stop this soon :-) % % -- % Rob 'Feztaa' Park % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % -- % "Where would man be today if it wasn't for women? In the % Garden of Eden eating watermelon and taking it easy." % -- C Kennedy :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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