On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 04:05:44PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> * On 20 Jun 2015, Chuck Martin wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 08:49:36PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > form. If it is the:
> > >
> > > "Ian> .....
> > > Herbet> ... "
> > >
> > > form, than that's no harder than following a straight line. I've never
> > > heard of that being deprecated, though I've only encountered it rarely
> > > in list posts.
> >
> > Actually, that can be ambiguous. For example:
> >
> > Ian> .....
> > Herbet> ...
> > Ian> .....
> > Herbet> ...
>
> Yes, this is one of my points in the (yes, flip) example I gave.
> Conventional SuperCite style gives only one level of quoting, which not
> only fails to provide appropriate context to a conversation that is
> several generations deep, but also *removes* such context when others
> have kept it. It destroys information that people have taken care to
> preserve.
>
> But trying to keep that by using multiple> layers> of> quoting> in
> SuperCite style gets unbearable in a text-only medium by making the
> quote indicators themselves a majority of the content.
>
> GNUS users have amended this situation by changing from full names,
> something like this:
>
> Ian> Herbet> Ian> Herbet> ...
>
> to initials only:
>
> >>> IZ == "Ian Zimmerman"
> >>> HA == "Herbet Andersen"
>
> IZ> HA> IZ> HA> ...
>
> This is a little less ridiculous but still a bit of a chore to read. But
> regardless, the truth remains that how we quote email is a train that's
> been accelerating for decades. Turning it around now means fighting a
> lot of inertia, and it's not going to get done on this mailing list.
> That was my other point.
But whatever the shortcomings, they are all superior to what other
mailers, e.g., Outlook (gack. gross), which I'm required to use at
work, do by default, i.e., NO indication at all of who authored which
parts.
But, I was wondering how one sets up those other methods in Mutt? Am
I overlooking something in the manual? (most likely, I am...)
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