Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature Request: configurable quoting character

[Eric Ortega]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:15:35PM +0100, Torstein Sunde wrote:

> Toby A Inkster wrote:

<snip "brawling" about who does what these days>

Is it possible that since the original poster has already written
the patch that we can remedy this grave injustice to netiquette by
simply nagging the hell out of the user when they try and change to a
non-standard quote?


I mean, the person who coded this up obviously has a good enough reason.
I would think that an interface like:

  greyed out "change quote text" with a radio button labelled:
    "I really, really need to change the quote style"

  dialogue (or whatever) to change the quote

  on accept pops up a "If you are planning on quoting like this to
    the regular old usenet, you are basically acting like a jerk, 
    do you really want to do this?"

  then, when they click 'yes', "You are going to break a lot of readers
    and just basically act like a total newbie ...."

  etc.