Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 08:08:01 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 00:23:22, Peter Kappler wrote: >On January 10, 2000 at 23:31:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>How about ignoring the [D] stuff if there are >> characters on the front of >>lines? IE in an original post, the diagrams are neat... But in each follow-up >>post, they become tedius. >> >>Otherwise, I would suggest that this be used sparingly, where appropriate, >>rather than shotgun-style. It makes it harder to read text, and also greatly >>increases the download times for posts that have a couple of dozen of these >>things in 'em. > >I actually really like having the diagram in the response. It's especially >useful if you're debating the merits of the position. > >The real problem, as you said, is with posts that contain too many diagrams. There are two ways we could do this. 1. We could leave it the way it is now, and anyone who does not want quoted diagrams to appear in the reply can remove the [D]. -or- 2. Make it so the [D] has to be the first thing on a line to work. Then if anyone DOES want the diagram to appear in their quote they must remove any >'s before the [D]. Switching from one to the other only involves changing one character in the script, so it's up to you guys. I will say that choice 2 would be easier on the server since there would be fewer diagrams to decode and less bandwidth used, but I'm not sure if this would be very significant.
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