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Re: Quoting style
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Ted Zlatanov |
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Re: Quoting style |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:08:09 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:18:15 +0300 Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
TL> On 2009-09-14 10:55 (-0500), Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:59:03 +0200 Slackrat <g-no-ose@azurservers.com> wrote:
>>> Would you be willing to share your method of getting the poster's
>>> initials to preceed the quotted texf as per above?
>>
>> Supercite will do it. It looks bad in Outlook and web interfaces,
>> though, so choose your audience carefully.
TL> A minor rant: I think nobody should use Supercite and its "TL> " or
TL> "Teemu> " quoting.
OK.
TL> As everybody knows the de facto standard is "> " (with nesting) and
TL> it's the most widely supported style. People are used to read nestes
TL> >'s so it's the easiest style to read and understand. If you
TL> (general "you") want to write messages for other people (not just
TL> for yourself or for other limited audience) then please use the
TL> standard and forget about all weird custom stuff.
TL> There are some groups of people who tend to use bad quotations:
TL> Microsoft Outlook users, Gmail users, Emacs Rmail and Supercite users.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:28:39 +0200 Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
RR> Agreed 100%. Some usenet groups have become almost unreadable because of
RR> "custom" indent or indent not being used at all. Some MS SW users dont
RR> indent at all and just followup after a "-------" seperator or often
RR> nothing at all. Truly horrible.
RR> While freedom and choice is good, making it too easy for people to break
RR> standards using something like gnus is not a good way forward IMO.
Sorry, but we'll have to disagree. Feel free to use any prefix you
like, but I find the person's initials valuable as a quoting prefix,
especially in reply to multiple posts as you see above. Also, if by "de
facto" you mean "used by the majority," top-quoting Outlook-style is the
de facto standard.
Ted
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