On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Fabien Bodard wrote: > Le 11 mars 2015 08:37, "Rolf-Werner Eilert" <eilert-sprac...@t-online.de> a > ??crit : > > If someone introduced a new mail text protocol, this might be done with > > tags similar to html. This would leave the text readable in text-only > > mail clients or for the case something gets garbled. Newer programs > > could handle the tags and make it up like the message clients on > > smartphones do. > > > > For instance, we could use a simple %DATETIME% tag for a number of > > lines, and a #DATETIME# closing tag. Or would <DATETIME> </DATETIME> be > > better? Maybe one could even have a quoting system like that of the > > popular forums, including the name of the author etc. The mail client > > would then figure out which block of text belongs where, and the user > > could choose for top or bottom quote or whatever is preferred. > > > > Should we start a project in Gambas? :) > > Why not ?... A library, a gui, a cgi
Then we could also carry over Kevin's idea of *linking* message descriptors instead of quoting their bodies and constructing the displayed text locally which I kinda like. But you must be aware that the whole internet outside of Gambas will make fun of us if our mailing list will ultimately be run by a program written in Gambas when we already have a software repository written in Gambas :-) Regards, Tobi -- "There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
