Moin, * David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-12-17 15:39]: >While others may have said it, and some may even believe it, I don't >get it. It's simple, once you think about it: You don't quote your own comments. Thus, you cannot set them apart.
>It makes sense to me to have a mixture of indent chars in a >discussion, and it makes things clearer for me. To each his own. I have problems with your way of doing things because it spoils the way everyone else does it. You cannot break conventions and claim that nothing is broken. So it's not "To each his own", because that would defeat the very purpose of the quote signs. Wenn ich auf einmal die Sprache wecheln würde, nur damit es für *mich* klarer ist was ich schreibe, hätten die meisten anderen ebenfalls nichts davon. If you want your special kind of clearness at the expense of everyone else, just go ahead and say so, that would clear matters up. >Admitted -- but I also see room for flexibility and configuration >choices. So do I, but not without considering everyone else. >I mean, c'mon, LookOut! will even handle %_ gracefully (well, as >gracefully as it can handle anything)! You want all of us to strive for higher levels of outlookishness? >Other than the fact that I just plain like the character and have no >great fondness for '>', and the opinion that % is nicer anyway, I don't >have any other reasons. These is the reason you disrupt everyone else's MUA/editor for? "I like it"? Even Outlookies have better reasons for writing the answer before the question. >I promise I'm *not* just trying to be stubborn. Then you have some weird priorities. >% This was very useful, since you could see with one look who wrote the >% quote (not who quoted it). It was color-coded of course. Nobody had >Sure. That sounds like Rob's argument, though. I don't think so. Initials are far more feasible, as you can see from the fact that they are/were in wide use. >I look forward to the time when 80% of everyone else will use mutt >right along with us -- and perhaps find the world a better place as >well. This has nothing to do with Mutt except for the fact that it can do less than Crosspoint, which is one of its design goals anyway. >There are a lot of things that I do purely out of personal tradition or >belief, and I'm not about to change that. There are even things that >I do to incorporate the traditions or beliefs of others -- and I mean >in as simple a way as a writing style, without getting into the whole >arena of what might more typically be considered "belief tolerance" or >whatever politically correct name such things might have today. Don't make a minority thing out of this. I also do a lot of things out of personal tradition, but I don't claim that they don't affect others. >In this particular case I firmly believe that the proper tool -- mutt >-- exists and has the configuration capability to work *with* my >particular style and further believe that anyone else (particularly >those already using mutt) has the ability to choose whether or not to >incorporate my practice. You are right of course, I only find it obnoxious that you *require* me to change my Mutt settings or suffer the consequences. In any one-to-many-communication, the /one/ should make the effort to put out a clear message. There's even an RFC about this, as you probably know. >Oooh, that was way harsh. That was in fact a compliment. In about 99% of cases, it wouldn't be worthwhile to discuss unique changes of accepted standards, carried out for purely personal reasons. >I understand "ineffective" to mean that any message I might have is >utterly lost -- something that I wouldn't even say about the upside-down >quoting of Outhouse -- and is just noise in the ether. I'm sorry that >you feel that way. I obviously don't. >Fair enough. There are probably a lot of variables that you don't >need, then. Maybe I should petition to get % added to the default list >so that you will be able to read my mail. If you do that, there will someone pop up who uses § or something else. In addition, you would break lots of programs expecting adherence to standards (you do already). One quote sign is enough. Thorsten -- Intolerant people should be shot.
