On Saturday 21 March 2015, Larry Kuenning wrote: > Settable by which user? The sender or the recipient?
Recipient of course, sender has no way of knowing what the recipient prefers. > And wouldn't a default of removing all but one level of quoted text make > nonsense of some posts? E.g. in the passage above, one needs the inner > quotation to know what the outer quotation refers to. Not for us. Someone joining the conversation mid stream might but that is what archives are for. > It seems to me correct editing of quotation sequences requires human > thought, not just mechanical text manipulation. Even though some people > expect their computers to think for them. I'm sure there would be occasionally maglings when some one starts a sentence with with an alternate quote character. Lindsay Haisley raises the valid point that HTML mail would be most difficult to include in such a filter. Oh well, I can dream... -- William ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
