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

"António Marques" <m.ap@sapo.pt> wrote in message
news:423f6b6e$0$24052$a729d347@news.telepac.pt...
> John Atkinson wrote:
>
>> OK, you must have done something, cause replies to you now behave fine.
>
> Okey dokey, please warn me in case it breaks again.

No apology for trashing me and my newsreader out of hand, hey?
>
>>>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!)
>
> Can't tell you precisely where it is :/

tools/options/read and write messages. opt for "reply and read in text
only" instead of "reply and/or read in same format" or "html"
>
> To sum it up: all a newsreader has to do is to prepend '> ' to every line.
> Conceivable failure to do so I think can only stem from inability to
> determine where the line ends (and so, where the next one begins). Since
> MIME QP may use a special code for linebreaks, it's possible that a
> newsreader misses it when composing the reply. It, however, correctly
> parses it when displaying the message, or else one would trap the problem
> at an early stage.
>
> So I'm now MIMEless... but since one only needs MIME to pass 8-bit
> characters across 7-bit servers, and the only 8-bit character I usually
> use is the o-acute in my name, oh well.
>
> If somehow the problem creeps back in, I'll have to look at it better. I
> see a lot of people use Outlook 6.x, probably they were all experiencing
> it?

We were probably the only people to ever TELL you. Or I was. Then someone
else decided to tell you.
>
>>>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).
>
> Oh, that must be the few weeks I'm back after quite a few years' slumber.
> Believe it or don't, I'm having a +- decent news service for the first
> time since, say, 1999.
> --
> António Marques
>
> Gluecklich ist, wer vergisst, was nicht mehr zu aendern ist
> -- Wilhelm Busch