Maybe this is old news but...
Danilo Turina
danilo.turina@alcatel.it
Wed Dec 13 13:21:00 GMT 2006
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> ...I just saw this:
>
> http://learn.to/quote/
>
> IMO, the use of the "to" domain is cute and the web page itself is
> nicely done.
>
> cgf
>
Nice page, thank you.
Anyway, IMHO, writing after the quote is not always the best way to go.
That is, it's the best way to go if the reader is reading only the last
mail of the thread and wants to know all the context of the discussion,
but if one, as I usually do, reads a thread starting from the first
post, it's a bit awful, since you have something like this:
Post #1
-------
bla bla bla bla Cygwin bla bla bash bla bla thread bla bla.
Posix bla bla, Windows API, bla bla bla.
bla bla compliant bla bla.
bla bla bla.
Post #2
-------
> bla bla bla bla Cygwin bla bla bash bla bla thread bla bla.
> Posix bla bla, Windows API, bla bla bla.
> bla bla compliant bla bla.
> bla bla bla.
Not alwasy true, since bla bla bla bla.
bla bla bla bla bla bla.
bla bla bla bla bla bla.
Post #3
-------
> > bla bla bla bla Cygwin bla bla bash bla bla thread bla bla.
> > Posix bla bla, Windows API, bla bla bla.
> > bla bla compliant bla bla.
> > bla bla bla.
>
> Not alwasy true, since bla bla bla bla.
> bla bla bla bla bla bla.
> bla bla bla bla bla bla.
Of course, but consider the case when bla bla bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.
Please attach cygcheck output bla bla bla.
When you read a post that is around level 5/6 you must skip a lot of
text that you have already read in the previous posts and, of course,
the text you are interested in (i.e. the reply of the sender of the
post) is not immediately visibile when you open the post (you must
scroll down and skip the above text before reaching it).
Ciao,
Danilo
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