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Re: "MOC" Blacksmith Shop on lego.com
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Dec 2001 14:58:49 GMT
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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.



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