Subj : Re: MultiMail v0.37
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : PAUL KIENITZ
Date : Sat Jul 22 2000 03:06 pm

CA> Wrong. The "ambiguity" you refer to is in the quoters that do it the
CA> wrong way - not my responsibility.

If they arrested you in England for driving on the wrong side of the road,
I guess you'd claim that the other drivers were the ones in error...

CA> The "ambiguity" is broken code that should be fixed by the authors. No
CA> reason I should worry about it at all.

Broken, my ass.  Nobody has ever found the algorithm that can handle all
the different kinds of old quote marks when adding new ones, cleaning them
up consistently and predictably.  The idea that "XX>" should never be added
in front of a ">" is not feasible.  And the idea that all the existing
software that may do this should be fixed is not feasible either, as you
know perfectly well.

 PK> That's why the suggested standard that was posted recommended that
 PK> style.

CA> Nope. "The standard" isn't even a standard. It was never adopted, only
CA> suggested by someone.

That's why I said "suggested".  What are you saying "nope" to?

CA> Whoever suggested it just never thought of the way I do it.

HAHA!!  Sometimes, no matter how often I am exposed to the way you think,
I am just stupefied by the notions you come up with.

Never thought of it... Good God!  What kind of retards do you take these
people for?  An eight year old could go through the different plausible
combinations without failing to think of any.  How could anyone careless
enough to fail to think of such a simple variation be capable of producing
any kind of standards document at all?

The people who wrote that document thought the question through far more
thoroughly than you did.  Count on it.  More importantly, they were
thinking of people other than themselves.

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