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Date: Mar 8, 2008 09:55
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> "Floyd L. Davidson" apaflo.com> wrote in message
> news:8763vxrhze.fld@apaflo.com
> : > "Ivor Jones" wrote:
> : >>"kony" spam.com> wrote in message
> : >>news:08j3t3pi9cmhi3ci5r1lgvei4fmdg1l0po@4ax.com
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> : >>[snip]
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> : >>: > I don't know about "only thing worse", there are
> : >>: > lots of worse things but make it a 4th complaint
> : >>: > because it should not be someone else's burden to
> : >>: > cope with non-standard quote marks - even if many
> : >>: > newsreader apps can do so.
> : >>
> : >>It shouldn't be *my* problem if your software can't
> : >>cope. ...
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Author: Ivor JonesIvor Jones Date: Mar 8, 2008 10:18
"krw" att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message
news:MPG.223c9d106b41550b9898df@news.individual.net
: > In article <63ffhgF27r9utU1@mid.individual.net>,
: > ivor@thisaddressis.invalid says...
[snip]
: >> It's not misconfigured. Just configured differently.
: >
: > In this case, "differently" = "non-standard" =>
: > misconfigured.
How do I know it's not your system that's misconfigured..? If it were
configured correctly, surely it could cope with a : instead of a > ??
Ivor
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Author: Floyd L. DavidsonFloyd L. Davidson Date: Mar 8, 2008 13:11
"Ivor Jones" wrote:
>"krw" att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote in message
>news:MPG.223c9d106b41550b9898df@news.individual.net
>: > In article <63ffhgF27r9utU1@mid.individual.net>,
>: > ivor@thisaddressis.invalid says...
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>[snip]
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>: >> It's not misconfigured. Just configured differently.
>: >
>: > In this case, "differently" = "non-standard" =>
>: > misconfigured.
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>How do I know it's not your system that's misconfigured..? If it were
>configured correctly, surely it could cope with a : instead of a > ??
So just how many different possible quote characters is
my software supposed to work for? Idiots who want to
use a non-standard quote character can choose from 100
or so...
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Author: JosephKKJosephKK Date: Mar 8, 2008 13:24
On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:40:31 -0900, floyd@ apaflo.com (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:
>krw att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:>>> krw att.bizzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
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Author: JosephKKJosephKK Date: Mar 8, 2008 14:16
On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:26:05 -0500, CBFalconer yahoo.com>
wrote:
>PCPaul wrote:
>> Ivor Jones wrote:
>>> "ehsjr" bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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>>> [snip]
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>>> : : Non-standard usage can make your posts harder to : :
>>> understand, and more difficult...
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Author: JosephKKJosephKK Date: Mar 8, 2008 14:23
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:41:38 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
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> ipal.net> wrote in message
>news:fqrka301cph@news1.newsguy.com
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>: > What can be confusing to people is the double ": :"
>: > usage. That makes
>: > it look like you...
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Author: JosephKKJosephKK Date: Mar 8, 2008 14:37
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 02:43:18 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
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>"kony" spam.com> wrote in message
>news:08j3t3pi9cmhi3ci5r1lgvei4fmdg1l0po@4ax.com
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>[snip]
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>: > I don't know about "only thing worse", there are lots of
>: > worse things but make it a 4th complaint because it
>: > should not be someone else's burden to cope with
>: > non-standard quote marks - even if many newsreader apps
>: > can do so.
>
>It shouldn't be *my* problem if your software can't cope.
>
>Ivor
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Author: JosephKKJosephKK Date: Mar 8, 2008 14:58
On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:56:39 -0500, kony spam.com> wrote:
>On 5 Mar 2008 14:42:21 GMT, phil-news-nospam@ ipal.net wrote:
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> >>| One contribution I would make is that you are aware that your phone service
>>| will support 4 REN and that each phone is normally...
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Author: Ivor JonesIvor Jones Date: Mar 8, 2008 15:45
"Floyd L. Davidson" apaflo.com> wrote in message
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[snip]
: > So just how many different possible quote characters is
: > my software supposed to work for? Idiots who want to
: > use a non-standard quote character can choose from 100
: > or so...
My software (OE Quotefix, also OE as supplied) has a choice of three - the
standard > or : or |
: > You may, or may not, be able to recognize the problem
: > with accepting any character as the quote character...
: > It's exactly the same as not recognizing any quote
: > character at all. Or, recognizing the standard and
: > looking at an article formatted with a non-standard
: > character.
: >
: > See?
No. Sorry.
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