Re: [Pan-users] Feature requests: Colors

[Charles Sullivan]

On 29 Mar 2002 14:06:09 -0700
Brett Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 13:35, Charles Sullivan wrote:
> [..]
> > ----------------------------------
> > John wrote:
> > > Blah, blah, blah.
> > > - John
> > 
> > I think you're wrong John, it's really blah, blah.
> > - Harry
> > ----------------------------------
> [...]
> > I'd prefer the attribution to be in the same color as the
> > quoted material
> [...]
> 
> I disagree.  John didn't write the attribution, Harry did.  So
> it should be the same color as Harry's text (which is the way
> it's currently implemented).

Consider though that Harry really didn't write the attribution.
It's merely an automatically generated synopsis of information
from the header of John's message.  And as that header was
generated by John's software using information provided by John,
I'd argue it would be more correct to color it the same as the
text of his message. 
    
We can stubbornly hold to our orginal mindset and have a coloring
system which rapidly loses its utility with increasing levels of
quotes, or slightly change our way of thinking and make the colors
really useful.

Regards,
Charles Sullivan