XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net   
      
   On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:10:19 -0500, (PeteCresswell) wrote:   
      
   > Per tlvp:   
   >>Pete, you of all people must know that not all news readers handle quotes   
   >>properly, and that that's true not only of NNTP clients but also -- indeed,   
   >>often more so -- of their human users. So be of good cheer. Cheers, -- tlvp   
   >   
   > No, I did not.   
   >   
   > Could you elaborate on that ?   
   >   
   > Is there a way to put quotes in that works across all readers ?   
      
   No, there most assuredly is *not* :-) . How can you ever be sure your   
   readers will actually see your quotation marks, or understand them   
   correctly if they do see them? No way. Same as for smileys :-) . And lots   
   of newsreaders (the software sort, not the bipedal featherless   
   wetware-driven variety) have no idea either how to indicate quoting (for   
   quoted passages) or how to display quoted material so as to make plain the   
   various levels of quoting. Likewise re sig delimiters. MS and Google nntp   
   wares are infamous for their failings in those regards; and MS and Google   
   users, in many instances, are little better. Our mutual PreMenstrualCramps   
   correspondent fits that description to a "T", dontcha think?   
      
   If this response displeases, my apologies; won't happen again (in this   
   thread), unless I just can't help myself :-) . Cheers, -- tlvp   
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