To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.admin.nntpOpen lugnet.admin.nntp in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Administrative / NNTP / 965
964  |  966
Subject: 
Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:58:49 GMT
Viewed: 
1339 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford writes:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Thomas Stangl writes:
Well, hate to burst your bubble... <snip>

Oh, Tom... I see that your reply ended up looking like you were responding
to Richie's comments instead of mine.  I wonder, were you using the web
interface to post?  I've found that when I go to reply through the web that
the message in improperly formatted right off the hop.  The person's name
(to whose message you are actually replying) ends up *without* the '>' quote
mark.  However, their comments end up *with* the quote mark.  This can be
very confusing if it's not manually corrected.

No, it's actually quite clear. As in the example above. ("I" am saying that
YOU wrote the stuff that is marked with ">" symbols and YOU are saying that
TOM wrote the stuff that is marked with ">>"  symbols.)

Then I stand corrected.

PLEASE DO NOT manually "correct" this. The internet standard is to do it
this way and if you change it by hand, you break it for most people. The web
interface, and the NNTP interface, and the mail interface are all working
correctly.

I will stop correcting it immediately.

To repeat, attribution lines should have one *less* ">" than the quoted text
attributed by them. That's the standard. It is a good standard. Get used to
it. LUGNET is not broken in this area. Please don't fix it manually.

Done.

If you doubt me, you may want to do some research into RFCs.

Larry, I never doubt you.  I usually just disagree with you.  ;)

Regards,
Allan B.



1 Message in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR