Re: spaces after a period (Was: Re: diff between sprintf() and fprintf())

On 2006-05-23, Skitt <skitt99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jordan Abel wrote:
Skitt wrote:
Al in Dallas wrote:
"Skitt" wrote:

Please remove the ">" marks from your sig.

Um, there were no ">" marks.

Yeah, I know. They were pipes. I already responded about that.

The character he did use disappeared appropriately in Free Agent.

Different news clients act differently. Anyway, the problem has been
resolved.

Catering to a buggy user-agent by altering a perfectly valid sig is
not "resolving". Regardless of how one views the interpretation of
text starting with vertical bars as quoted text; even sigs containing
quoted text should be snipped per USEAGE.

The word is "usage",

USEAGE is the name of the document that is the closest thing there is to
a standard in this area. USE as in USENET, and AGE is probably meant to
be a pun on "usage"

and sure -- they should be, but there's a lot of imperfect software
out there. If a slight change has to be made by someone who is doing
something that I have not encountered in my almost nine years on
Usenet, that's not anything to complain about. The world is not
a perfect place, but we should try to help each other, if possible
(rjv, pay no attention to this -- you're exempt).

I didn't mean to make a big deal out of this [the apparent "reply storm"
is only because i read and reply to each message in turn, rather than
doing something sane like collecting my thoughts and replying to _one_
of them] but I was a bit confused by the idea that there was some
"standard" for quote markers that listed any other than >.
.

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