Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting
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Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as follows:
# I've had similar ideas recently about using XML for conf
# files in /etc, but that would take a bit of elaboration.
# I'll save that for another time.
Wow! A good idea, but a lot of sysadmins wouldn't go for it. To some, XML is
nice, bit they prefer key=value conf files. They are easier for a hand-coding
sysadmin like myself to write, but even I as a hand-coder could go for the XML
approach.
# <body>
# <quote messageID="foo">
# Some stuff
# </quote>
#
# <quote messageID="bar">
# Some stuff from another message
# </quote>
#
# <reply>
# Some stuff that I wrote about:
#
# <quote messageID="aThirdMessageID">
# Some tripe
# </quote>
# </body>
This is why it's called "extensible markup language". We could all be doing
things with email that until today no one even thought possible. But since
there is currently no XML standard, a few like-minded people like us will have
to draft it, or else we will have to watch someone else do it, like MS, who is
now using XML for all their office document formats. Good for them for once. ;-)
Lorenzo
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