Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 18:40:41 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 11:08:01, Tim Mirabile wrote: >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. I would make it so you would have to remove the >> for the diagram to show in the next post
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