From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 17:11:49 MDT
David McFadzean wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eugen Leitl" <eugen@leitl.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 3:10 AM
>
>
>>Here we see more twitter. The idiotic gateway from the SuperDuperMarkUp
>>feels it's necessary to mask apostrophes in plain text rendition of the
>>markup.
>>
>
> The "idiotic gateway" is still under development. I've fixed the bug so now
> quotes will not be escaped when messages are sent out to the list.
>
> I'm extremely disappointed that Eugen has chosen the Extropian mailing list
> to insult and belittle another online community and their chosen style of
> communication. Especially a community that shares many goals, values and
> members, not to mention webserver and disk space, with the Extropians. If
> anyone else shares my disappointment please speak up.
>
What do you mean by "their chosen style of communication"? Do
you think all of them chose it or even the majority agree or do
they simply put up with it?
I am disappointed to see remarks about markup languages, many
which I also think are a bit silly, taken personally as an
attack on a community. Whatever is the point of that?
- samantha
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