[CLUE-Tech] A small request for the list.

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Thu May 23 12:51:37 MDT 2002


On Thu, 23 May 2002 12:39:32 -0600
bof <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:

> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 
> >Replying to Adams mention of inline replying; I think it works very
> >well, and I'll not [sic] that inline replies are always below what's
> >being replied to

Aaack! The dreaded "[sic]". That's almost as bad as having someone say
"NI!" to you.

> Yeah, I try to put my comments next to what was pertinent. I'll follow 
> that practice. But as you can see, for some reason, Mozilla doesn't 
> allow a clean snip and insists on placing several blank lines into the 
> message if I cut out the beginning part of it.

I haven't run across an e-mailer that doesn't have some quirks in that
area. Seems that quoting, etc., are just going to continue to be issues.
Worst I've ever seen is lotus notes (when mailing externally).

> >OTOH, we could have a flame war ;-)
> 
> No, if we're going to do that, let's make it over something really 
> worthwhile, like "vi vs.emacs" -- or was that "GNU/Emacs." <g>
> 
> BOF

Hey, if I wanted to chord using keys, I'd get a piano. ;-)

KDE/Gnome?

jed
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