python-list/python-dev quoting style

[Michael Hoffman]

Does anyone have a script to convert more conventional USENET quoting
style like this:

> Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote in message-id
>
> I disagree.

to the commonly used python-dev/python-list style like this:

[Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt]

>> Lambda is the best Python feature ever!

[John]
> I disagree.

 

[Aahz]

Does anyone have a script to convert more conventional USENET quoting
style like this:

Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote in message-id

I disagree.

to the commonly used python-dev/python-list style like this:

[Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt]

Lambda is the best Python feature ever!

[John]
I disagree.

Blech. Stick with the standard Usenet quoting style for both!

 

[Michael Hoffman]

[me]

Does anyone have a script to convert more conventional USENET quoting
style... to the commonly used python-dev/python-list style...

[Aahz]
Blech. Stick with the standard Usenet quoting style for both!

I think this style is *much* clearer and cleaner. It does require a lot
more hand editing though, although this encourages more judicious quoting.

 

[Aahz]

[me]

Does anyone have a script to convert more conventional USENET quoting
style... to the commonly used python-dev/python-list style...

[Aahz]
Blech. Stick with the standard Usenet quoting style for both!

I think this style is *much* clearer and cleaner. It does require a
lot more hand editing though, although this encourages more judicious
quoting.

It requires enough effort that I either skip it or don't respond. Keep
that in mind if you want people to respond to your posts. I also notice
many people trimming too much context. And who is "me", anyway?

 

[Michael Hoffman]

[me]

[me]

I think this style is *much* clearer and cleaner. It does require a
lot more hand editing though, although this encourages more judicious
quoting.

[Aahz]
It requires enough effort that I either skip it or don't respond. Keep
that in mind if you want people to respond to your posts.

Perhaps, but if doing so will make it easier for, say, Tim Peters to
respond to my post, you choosing not to respond is a burden I will have
to bear.

> I also notice many people trimming too much context.

I notice this too. Also people trimming not enough. With any means of
quoting.

> And who is "me", anyway?

It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in a
conversation between two people, one of whom is identified as "Aahz" and
is attributed words you yourself wrote.

 

[Grant Edwards]

It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
a conversation between two people,

Since when is a Usenet news group a conversation between two
people?

 

[Michael Hoffman]

[Aahz]

[me]

It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
a conversation between two people,

[Grant Edwards]

Since when is a Usenet news group a conversation between two
people?

Now there are three. At that time only two people had participated in
this thread.

Is there really confusion about who "me" is? I find that mystifying.

 

[Steve Holden]

[Aahz]

And who is "me", anyway?

[me]

It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
a conversation between two people,

[Grant Edwards]

Since when is a Usenet news group a conversation between two
people?

Now there are three. At that time only two people had participated in
this thread.

Is there really confusion about who "me" is? I find that mystifying.

Well, *I* know who "me" is. That makes you an impostor.

see-how-nobody-knows-who-you-are-now-ly y'rs - steve

 

[Grant Edwards]

[Aahz]

And who is "me", anyway?
[me]

It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
a conversation between two people,

[Grant Edwards]

Since when is a Usenet news group a conversation between two
people?

Now there are three. At that time only two people had participated in
this thread.

Is there really confusion about who "me" is? I find that
mystifying.

Well, *I* know who "me" is. That makes you an impostor.

see-how-nobody-knows-who-you-are-now-ly y'rs - steve

And now none of us have any way to know who the [me] above is.

 

[Michael Hoffman]

[me]
It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
a conversation between two people,

[me]

[Grant Edwards]

And now none of us have any way to know who the [me] above is.

I see.

 

[Gregory Petrosyan]

I see.

Wonderfull.