Shotwell in Lucid - OT stuff

[S.Allen]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 11:53:56AM -0700, rikona wrote:
> Hello S.Allen,

Back atcha rikona.
[ ...]

> 
> I can assure you that folks who have used it for quite a while in
> complex conversations like it quite a lot. But, like most 'new'
> things, people won't like it until they can see, first hand, the
> advantages. And, of course, you have to have an email client smart
> enough to do it, which most are not.

You need to get out more then. Bat is OK as far as Windoze e-mail
clients go, but there are better ones out there when playing on the
Unices. The novelty of using one's initials for quote characters wore
off for me sometime around 1993. 

 
> >> 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

Really, what you or I think is meaningless in this context. We're
communicating with others, so it behooves us to communicate in an easily
understandable manner so that other's don't have to inconvenience
themselves to read our precious thoughts. You're quoting makes it hard
to read when the majority of other people using text e-mail clients rely
on the RFC convention of quoting. There are rules in order to prevent
anarchy.

> >> with liberal snipping.
> 
> > It's not better
> 
> Those who have used it extensively would disagree.
> 
I've used it and I disagree with your assertion obviously enough.

> > it's unconventional and flies against RFC rules for e-mail.
> 
> To quote Wikipedia -
> 
> "There is no standard declaring one quote-prefix to be "right" and
> others to be "wrong" ". But some RFCs depend on one style, so it is
> widely used.

They're sure is. :)

> > 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.
> 
> Extreme... ? :-) Seems much less extreme than top posting in HTML -
> now that's extreme. :-)

No they're not extreme, one can read them easily enough even in a text
mode e-mail client like mine. :) 
> 
> This looks like one of those relatively minor things that send some
> folks ballistic. :-) But, it's easy enough to remove the intelligent
> quoting in my client so it won't upset some of the folks here.
> 
> Is this OK?

Just fine, thanks. :)
> 
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>  rikona        
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