python-list/python-dev quoting style

[Michael Hoffman]

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

John wrote:

Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt <jj*@example.net> wrote in message-id <gratuitous-detail> on 29 February 2004:

Lambda is the best Python feature ever!

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.

--
Michael Hoffman

[Aahz]

In article <dt**********@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hoffman <ca*******@mh391.invalid> wrote:

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

John wrote:

Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt <jj*@example.net> wrote in message-id

<gratuitous-detail> on 29 February 2004:

Lambda is the best Python feature ever!

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!
--
Aahz (aa**@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis

[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.
--
Michael Hoffman

[Aahz]

In article <dt**********@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hoffman <ca*******@mh391.invalid> wrote:

[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?
--
Aahz (aa**@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/

"19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis

[Michael Hoffman]

[me]

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

[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.
--
Michael Hoffman

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-02-25, Michael Hoffman <ca*******@mh391.invalid> wrote:

And who is "me", anyway?
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?
one of whom is identified as "Aahz" and is attributed words
you yourself wrote.

--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Not SENSUOUS... only
at "FROLICSOME"... and in
visi.com need of DENTAL WORK... in
PAIN!!!

[Michael Hoffman]

[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.
--
Michael Hoffman

[Steve Holden]

Some lurker calling himself "me" wrote:

[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
--
Steve Holden [phone] [phone]
Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com
PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-02-25, Steve Holden <st***@holdenweb.com> wrote:

[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.

--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hmmm... a CRIPPLED
at ACCOUNTANT with a FALAFEL
visi.com sandwich is HIT by a
TROLLEY-CAR...

[Michael Hoffman]

Grant Edwards wrote:

On 2006-02-25, Steve Holden <st***@holdenweb.com> wrote:

[me]
>It's hard to believe that you don't understand who "me" is in
>a conversation between two people,
[me]Is there really confusion about who "me" is? I find that
mystifying.

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

I see.
--
me

[Gregory Petrosyan]

"me" wrote:

I see.
--
me

Wonderfull.