Re: quoting issues

2023-09-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 16:32 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 11:31:47AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 00:48 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > untrimmed messages be really unnerving ... I mean, it seems to be > > > a > > > known fact that lo

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 11:31:47AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 00:48 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: untrimmed messages be really unnerving ... I mean, it seems to be a known fact that lots of people, especially in the computer world, can't seem to think and write "in

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 00:48 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > untrimmed messages be really unnerving ... I mean, it seems to be a > known fact that lots of people, especially in the computer world, > can't seem to think and write "in complete thoughts with context" > (Nick Holland), thus being unab

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
untrimmed messages be really unnerving ... I mean, it seems to be a known fact that lots of people, especially in the computer world, can't seem to think and write "in complete thoughts with context" (Nick Holland), thus being unable to understand a trimmed message - but please, everyone: trim, if

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/23/23 12:07, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 9/23/2023 2:42 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/23/23 01:41, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: His quoting is often broken for some reason.  That whole section was actually added by him. Probably needs to add on

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 9/23/2023 2:42 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 9/23/23 01:41, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: His quoting is often broken for some reason.  That whole section was actually added by him. Probably needs to add one more blank line between quotes and repli

Re: quoting issues

2023-09-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 9/23/23 01:41, Tim via users wrote: On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 23:01 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: His quoting is often broken for some reason. That whole section was actually added by him. Probably needs to add one more blank line between quotes and replies. Some email editors are terrible at mis

Re: mail quoting issues (was Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails)

2018-04-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2018-04-05 at 15:20 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > There's a bunch of mail clients that stupidly extend the quote symbols > beyond the quoted text (Evolution included), and if you don't delete > them (which Evolution often refuses with HTML messages), or carriage > return even more space bet

mail quoting issues (was Re: F27 : startx Xfce fails)

2018-04-04 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 4 April 2018, Samuel Sieb sent: > Careful with the quoting. Maybe it's related to the html format of > the email, but your text appears as part of what you quoted There's a bunch of mail clients that stupidly extend the quote symbols beyond the quoted text (Evolution includ