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| (...) Well, the reason is because "Sensible Person" didn't actually write the text "In lugnet.admin.general, Sensible Party wrote:", so it's not really something that they said. I believe it's the standard for old text email quotings and newsgroup (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) Okay, I can understand that, but at least couldn't the colors match up without any loss in accuracy? JOHN (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) Of course the "XXX said" could be kept the same but colour coded with the daughter colour. Tim (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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| (...) The only semi-tricky part would be to identify the 'XXX said' line - though, it's a safe assumption that if the line before a quoted region has exactly one sentance and ends with a ':', it's part of the quote. Probably miss a bunch of edge (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Well, there's a little more to it, actually. Basically, you need the code to figure out what's what. Since LUGNET was designed to work with SMTP and NNTP, the exact string "In lugnet.xxx.yyy, ZZZ wrote:" won't be consistant. Right now, the (...) (18 years ago, 14-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
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