Subject: how to customise reply follow-up?

From: jamie <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:13:37 -0500

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 This has been, I'm sure, asked and answered here before.
Is there a way, beyond actually hacking the source code,
to customise the "On <$DATE>, <$DORK> wrote:" field
in reply mode?
 thanks for any help.

jamie
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From: [email-masked] (Vikas Agnihotri)
Date: 21 Nov 1996 18:55:44 GMT

Nope, according to Dave Miller (one of Pine's authors), not at this
time (Pine 3.95).  I had asked him this question as an aside in some
emails we were exchanging about some other topic.

 I, too, would like to see the reply-to string user-customizable. (Sigh...)

--Vikas

On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:13:37 -0500, jamie <[email-masked]> wrote:
[You wrote ]-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
[You wrote ]
[You wrote ] This has been, I'm sure, asked and answered here before.
[You wrote ]Is there a way, beyond actually hacking the source code,
[You wrote ]to customise the "On <$DATE>, <$DORK> wrote:" field
[You wrote ]in reply mode?
[You wrote ] thanks for any help.
[You wrote ]
[You wrote ]jamie

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From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:19:00 GMT

[Note: the below is not my usual quoting format, I am just
demonstrating how bad it can become.]

In article <[email-masked]>,
Vikas Agnihotri <[email-masked]> wrote:
(Vikas wrote)Nope, according to Dave Miller (one of Pine's authors), not at this
(Vikas wrote)time (Pine 3.95).  I had asked him this question as an aside in some
(Vikas wrote)emails we were exchanging about some other topic.
(Vikas wrote)
(Vikas wrote) I, too, would like to see the reply-to string user-customizable. (Sigh...)

_I_ would like to see the reply-indent-string _less_ so. Just look at
how the format breaks with too long lines just by two persons replying
to each other. And when the strings are not in any common format, it
is impossible to reformat automatically.

(Vikas wrote)On Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:13:37 -0500, jamie <[email-masked]> wrote:
(Vikas wrote)[You wrote ] This has been, I'm sure, asked and answered here before.
(Vikas wrote)[You wrote ]Is there a way, beyond actually hacking the source code,
(Vikas wrote)[You wrote ]to customise the "On <$DATE>, <$DORK> wrote:" field
(Vikas wrote)[You wrote ]in reply mode?
(Vikas wrote)[You wrote ] thanks for any help.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:16:56 -0500

On 25 Nov 1996, Vikas Agnihotri wrote (excerpt):

>  I agree completely..But the thing is , the almost universal default
> of '>' as the reply-indent-string also does not lend itself
> to clarity when you are replying to a post that is already
> a nth level followup post itself.  [...]
>  Hmm.. certainly, a annoying problem.. hope some wise folks
> out there come up with a solution 

    Well, one step toward a solution is already available.  It's call
"self discipline when replying."  I have noticed that many people quote
far too much when they reply or followup than is really necessary to
get their point across.  Yes, some context is often necessary and is
sometimes more conveniently quoted than paraphrased or summarized, but
I have rarely seen a post with qotations 43 levels deep that was really
worth the effort it took to figure it out, even when people used
different quotation strings.

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