Shotwell in Lucid

[S.Allen]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:05:15AM -0700, rikona wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> Saturday, May 7, 2011, 4:56:15 PM, Jeff wrote:
> 
> JG> On 05/05/2011 12:05 AM, rikona wrote:
> 
> >> I can see several small differences, but checking the past few dozen
> >> emails, I see the same things, and you did not comment about those
> >> emails. So I guess I don't see what you consider 'proper'. I can see
> >> about 1> JB> 0-12 differences. Perhaps you could specify which of these you
> >> consider to be the improper things, perhaps with examples, and the
> >> proper replacements, also with examples.
> >>
> 
> JG> He is referring to the quoted lines starting with initials, such as:
> 
>  >> JB>
>  >> JB>
>  >> JB>
> 
> JG> I've never seen that before myself and it is a bit annoying -
> 

JG> Why annoying - just because it's different? :-)

Very annoying, and I assure it's probably only you that thinks it's
cool. ;)

> I think it is a much better way of quoting, but it's a shame that
> there are almost no clients smart enough to do it. If you have a
> longish, multi-split-up conversation between 3-5 people it is much
> more obvious who said what, on a line-by-line basis. Especially true
> with liberal snipping.

It's not better it's unconventional and flies against RFC rules for
e-mail. At the very least if you're going to use this extreme form of
quoting put an blank line between the initial and chevron. That helps
make it easier on the eyes.