XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: nospam@nospam.invalid   
      
   In article <9n1dhg99c3ba$.1gjomto1wzgw9$.dlg@40tude.net>, tlvp   
    wrote:   
      
   > >>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 :-) .   
      
   what newsreader won't show a smiley?   
      
   it's nothing more than 2 or 3 standard ascii characters. any newsreader   
   that can't manage that is *really* broken and not just with smileys.   
      
   as for quotes, it's just a prefix character, usually > but sometimes |.   
      
   the better newsreaders colour the various quote levels but the text is   
   always visible and readable, even in the most primitive newsreaders.   
      
   > 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?   
      
   the moral of the story is don't use shitty newsreaders.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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