Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Comm (tjsrno_at_spampost.com)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:24:13 GMT

"John Atkinson" <johnacko@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:1Sq%d.5437$C7.4950@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> OK, you must have done something, cause replies to you now behave fine.
> (LSD still not, but that doesn't surprise me, he uses rather
> unconventional settings anyway). I did try changing some of my
> "options", but they made no difference, so I changed them back
>
> It'll be interesting to see if Comm still has this trouble when replying
> to you.

Nope, no trouble. All is fine.
>
> BTW, I noticed that it also used to happen when I replied to a post from
> someone else which in turn was a reply to you. (That is, their
> newsreader put in the correct '>'s in front of your message, but mine
> didn't do so in front of theirs -- even though my replies to other posts
> of theirs were fine). Which would seem to imply that you were resetting
> some parameter which didn't effect their reader, but remained reset when
> it hit mine. (Don't know if this always happened.)
>
> Anyway, all's fine now (as far as my replies to you are concerned
> anyway), so guess we'll never know what was going on. Like you say,
> something with the way Outlook 6.x reacts to something your reader (and
> no others) (used to) send out.
>
> John.
>
> "António Marques" <m.ap@sapo.pt> wrote...
>
>> John Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> >> Hmm. The same thing happens to me. Previously, I've gone through
>> >> adding extra ">"s whenever I've answered your posts. (This time I
>> >> haven't, and you can see the mess that eventuates.) As far as I've
>> >> noticed, you and LSD are the only people whose posts do this to me.
> Or
>> >> maybe they're the only ones that do it that I've ever bothered to
> reply
>> >> to.
>>
>> I see both you and Comm use Outlook 6.x. I don't know whether it's
> some
>> Outlook bug - it has got that 'remove extra line breaks' option
> somewhere
>> which may have something to do with it.
>
> I can't find this option (and if it is the cause of the failure to
> insert '>'s, it's certainly a strange bug!)
>
>> >> Whose newsreader is to blame is unclear, but if it's mine, I'd be
>> >> pleased to be told how to "fix" it. And also why for 99% of the
> people
>> >> I reply to the thing works fine.
>>
>> I've tried turning off MIME quoted printable since I always avoid
> non-ASCII,
>> though I won't put much faith in the result.
>
> I've always had this turned off
>
>> Has it always been like that, or was it ever different?
>
> With LSD, for a long time. With you, ever since I started replying to
> you (a few weeks).
>
>> Please notice that if a newsreader manages to show someone's text and
> then
>> fails to quote it, that newsreader, in principle, is to blame.
> However, I'd
>> be more than willing to do what I can at this end of the line - but
> maybe
>> there's nothing I can do.
>>
>> This one: tried turning MIMEQP off.
>> --
>> António Marques
>>
>> I had an apple at lunch. I really wanted a pear. That
>> apple could have used a little more work.
>> -- ryan, osnews.com
>
>

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