On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, cbrown@xnetinc.com wrote:
>
> 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.
Change to an email client that does this for you. Most do.
> 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.
Are you seriously suggesting that the list should switch to HTML email
or something? Incidentally, any decent email client will colour
quoted text for you.
-- Gaute Strokkenes http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/ Yow! Did something bad happen or am I in a drive-in movie??
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