-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Olaf van der Spek Sent: 16 July 2007 18:49 To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Reply formatting plea

On 7/16/07, David Abrahams wrote:

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on Mon Jul 16 2007, "Ovanes Markarian"

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On Mon, July 16, 2007 13:46, David Abrahams wrote: [...]

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It gets really hard (for me, at least) to distinguish what you wrote from what the other person wrote. I know this seems nitpicky, but I ask that anyone who can tolerate it leave a blank line around replies, as follows:

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quote somebody saying something about something they said

Your reply to the original poster's thesis, or even: Would you tolerate this style? I like when things which belong together are together...

It doesn't help my problem -- that I can't see where the quotation ends and the reply starts -- much at all.

Wouldn't a user agent filter be able to insert the blank lines for you?

Surely its easier for people just to put in the extra line break or two than to require receivers of boost mail to add filters to add them? And it would put new arrivals on the list at a disadvantage. I with Dave Abrahams on this one - I sometimes have great difficulty in determining where replies start and end and it doesn't take much effort from the replier to make it so much clearer. By all means put the replies in line with the OP - just put a gap in so you can distinguish the reply from the OP. James

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