Re: top post fixer?
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Hi folks,
> with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was
> thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem.
> -----------
> HEADER
> BLANK_LINE
> TOP_POST
> BLANK_LINE
> MESSAGE
> SIG
> -----------
> into
> -----------
> HEADER
> BLANK_LINE
> MESSAGE
> BLANK_LINE
> TOP_POST
> SIG
> ------
> would it be possible to 'classify' posts and fix them?
> (top post,interspersed post,bottom post)
> if possible, would there be a down-side?
> anyone with hair-brainded ideas welcome :-)
Email in all its forms is structured only by casual convention,
outside of headers and multipart sections, and I can't imagine doing
this sort of automated "correcting" of posts. Try doing it manually,
a useful exercise before automating anything, and I suspect you'll see
many difficulties due to all sorts of things, like missing whitespace,
hare-brained quoting schemes, etc.
If you could convince everyone to use the same quoting and other
conventions, then maybe it could work, but in that case why not just
continue and also convince them to not top-post in the first place.
Good luck!
Ken
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Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu
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