18 Sep
2012
18 Sep
'12
3:14 p.m.
why would I intentionally make posts difficult to read, being Im looking for responses to
sometimes obscure queries?? Yahoo upgraded itself recently and no longer inserts the
conventional >. Sorry I refuse to do that manually. Perhaps theres a setting I could
alter. I saw an Australian bloke post as Ive been, even when it wasnt apparently
necessary, on the usenet, and figured it was appropriate. It never seemed unreadable to
me.
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 2:05 PM PDT Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
From: "geneb": Tuesday, September 18, 2012
12:52 PM
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Chris Tofu wrote:
C:\DERP> I don't understand the question. If it's "what am I
quoting?" -
Byte January 1984, p.8
He's politely asking why you quote replies like you've got a mental disorder.
I had assumed he's reading his email in HTML or some client that uses color to
indicate quoting. Then when it arrives here there's no color, leaving nothing but that
C: to mark his stuff. Depending on how he handles line wraps, that would also explain why
there's only one C: on the first line of each segment he writes.
Or, he could be deliberately using a difficult-to-read style to troll us.
In which case, he's succeeded.
Vince