[Coco] Moratorium on using double-dash?

[Aaron Wolfe]

Since we are miles from topic anyway...

"Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept".. a
simple concept that is seen throughout well made software.  (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle )

When I find a program failing to implement this strategy, I start
looking for alternatives.  Life is too short to use bad software :)



On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Andrew <keeper63 at cox.net> wrote:
> Ok, I know I've complained about this before; I don't really expect this to
> go anywhere, I'm just venting, I guess.
>
> Does anyone else on here use Thunderbird and get the list as a digest?
>
> When I do a reply to the digest, anything after a "double-dash" gets turned
> "grey" (though something else turns it back to "normal") - and any of the
> messages after that point aren't a part of the reply. Thus, I can't delete
> the portion I want, etc. to get what I do want (because inevitably, it's
> after the double-dash.
>
> There's been a bug fix request submitted to the TB team; that was years ago,
> though - nothing has been done.
>
> If you notice, I'm avoiding using it here in this "rant"; I try to do so for
> this and other lists I am on (admittedly, not many nowadays). Maybe I should
> change my subscribed email on this list to my virtual host, then use that
> server to process these digests and remove the double-dashes then forward
> them on...
>
> Seems like a lot of work; I just don't understand why Thunderbird seems to
> be the only mail client that interprets a double-dash symbol this way...
>
> bah.
>
> Andrew L. Ayers
> Glendale, Arizona
> http://www.phoenixgarage.org/
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