> first look at the format of
> http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-
login/476362-12-1-installer-boot-options.html#post2471882
> where you will see the author began by quoting a small portion of the
> previous message…
>
> but, then look at the image http://paste.opensuse.org/25074382 which is
> of my Thunderbird 13 displaying that message in its nntp form
> (Message-ID: <martinprowe.5ewwhf@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>) where you
> can see that the intended quoted text is shown as not-quoted and the
> intended new text is shown as quoted…
>
> and (the red arrow) points at the missing in the nntp version (but not
> the web version) quote tag closing bracket…
>
> how did that get lost? apparently lost both in http (so the tags show
> instead of putting that text in a quote box) and nntp…
>
> strange.
Probably related to NNTP’s special treatment of “.” as the start of
line. I’ll add this to my queue of things to look at with the gateway.
On 2012-06-30 07:56, dd@home.dk wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 08:08 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Probably related to NNTP’s special treatment of “.” as the start of
>> line.
>
> ok…but, i don’t see a line in either version beginning with such…
A single dot at the start of a line, and nothing more, signals end of
message in *nix since ever, probably, so it may not be documented. Try
using “mail” to type an email.
I understand that nntp can use the same convention. If I do that here you
will not see the rest.
Lets try:
…
single dot above - this line will not get posted.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
> Lets try:
>
> .
>
> single dot above - this line will not get posted.
It was converted to a double dot on the web side, and shown correctly via
nntp here. And the line was posted - thus the gateway does indeed tread a
lone dot differently.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
> On 06/29/2012 08:08 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Probably related to NNTP’s special treatment of “.” as the start of
>> line.
>
> ok…but, i don’t see a line in either version beginning with such…
Oh, I think that while I saw what you posted, I was thinking of another
thread in which “.” and “…” were on two consecutive lines.
Chances are that in editing the message, the user perhaps just
accidentally deleted the closing bracket when trimming the quote.
My guess is that the poster clicked the “Reply With Quote” button, but then did some editing to trim the amount quote. He presumably messed up that editing.
On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 10:36:02 +0000, nrickert wrote:
> dd@home.dk;2472261 Wrote:
>> i wonder if the poster hand tagged the quote…
>
> My guess is that the poster clicked the “Reply With Quote” button, but
> then did some editing to trim the amount quote. He presumably messed up
> that editing.
