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Re: A Question about Posting Behavior
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:49:08 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, David Eaton wrote:
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In lugnet.admin.general, John Neal wrote:
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I have had this question in my mind since Todd initiated the color-coding
for responses in a thread: when someone replies to a post, why doesn’t the
number of arrows correspond to the text of the poster?
... snip ...
Can someone explain to me why this isn’t the case?
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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
quotings, which is what Lugnet is based on. Note that in most Bulletin Board
posting styles, it’s different, and the entirety of the quote is put in a
very visible box (sometimes quite handy).
So, basically, the answer is “because it’s more accurate”. But yeah, it
sometimes takes a little while to figure out who said what.
DaveE
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Of course the “XXX said” could be kept the same but colour coded with the
daughter colour.
Tim
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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, 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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