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Skriven 2012-07-15 01:13:00 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av Nick Andre
Ärende: Re: .fidonet
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Hi Nick,

> Lets recap; for those who care. Or, lets just waste some disk space:

> You made a remark in the DB echo about how some characters are missing from
> quoted messages. And how this could be the difference between life and death.

I didn't see that type response in Mark's messages to you... just caught up in
the D'Brige echo...  but I did see him reporting that there were existing
problems in D'Bridge which you might want to look at.. that at least was the
start of that conversation.

>I gave the opinion that it is a non-issue, that "quoting problems" are nobodys
>problems but your own,

Well, yes, like BBBS, you can swap out the internal editor and use another. I
haven't done that with BBBS for the simple reason that editors that would work
with BBBS like joe or vi would not put the OP's initials in anyway.. well joe
would in a wonky kind of way.. once you type a few chars, you can have joe
repeat them.. but that's not the same as what I'm looking for in quoting.
Truncating characters in the OP's section the way Mark descibed the problem is
a different problem though.

> I made the point of mentioning that if you cannot understand the general jist
> of what a poster says, and you get your panties in a twist over a developer's
> refusal to fix a non-issue, then perhaps stronger medication is necessary.

Now that's silly Nick.  I don't know but perhaps Mark is saying something like,
this is something you've got your name attached to... and you'd do well to fix
any problems?  I can't speak for Mark obviously.

>You said I should care, but gave absolutely no logical reasons why, other than
> how my attitude is sinking the network (which is not a logical reason).

Maybe it's just my Catholic school upbringing.. Lol.. but  if you're going to
do something do it right! <grin>

> I gave several logical reasons and scenarios why I think quoting is a
> non-issue as there are many other problems with electronic mail, Fidonet and
> Internet, that I deal with and quoting has never been a problem.

Yes, of course.. you didn't have a problem.  You wouldn't, nor would I if I was
the OP.  But not all who read the messages that pass through your product are
OP'ers.

> And you were elected into the FTSC? For what purpose again exactly?

Don't knock our volunteers, please!  We need every one, and Mark is valued
member of the FTSC.

Take care,
Janis

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