[OT] Reply editing

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 23:52:18 EDT


Sarasvati,

-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Sarasvati
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:55 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: And Visions of Sugar Plum UTF-8's Dance in Their Heads

>Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>> This rampant failure to edit reply-to's is threatening
>> to bring the wrath of Sarasvati back down on the list, folks.

>Sarasvati is indeed listening and taking note.
>Please do edit your replies and exercise some
>intelligent snipping behaviour.

I am not sure exactly what you mean by this. Do you mean adding a '>' at
the beginning of each line and replying in place? If so then replying to a
300+ line missive is a lot of hand editing. It is especially nasty when
lines have to be reflowed, new line breaks added and old '>>>>>' characters
have to be removed.

If we are not limited to plain text then we could use different font colors.
This is actually a easier to read system and does not require that we reflow
lines as we add more and more '>' characters to the front of each line.

>Cheery regards from your,
> -- Sarasvati

>P.S. Look for Sarasvati's real-time wall of
>over-quoting shame, coming soon to a URL near you.
>Will *you* make the top ten? Find out soon!

Carl



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