Messages are incorrectly quoted on web page.

Mark Mitchell mmitchell@usa.net
Fri Sep 19 13:55:00 GMT 1997


>>>>> "Hyman" == Hyman Rosen <hymie@prolifics.com> writes:

    Hyman> The web archives of the egcs mailing lists do not correctly
    Hyman> quote the message text they contain. Things in the messages
    Hyman> which look like HTML tags are being interpreted as
    Hyman> such. See, for example,
    Hyman> http://www.cygnus.com/ml/egcs-bugs/1997-Sep/0193.html ,
    Hyman> which has most of its text struck out because I
    Hyman> instantiated a vector with a type 's'. I wanted
    Hyman> vector<s>, but that's not what I got.

There's a conflict here: doing the quoting means you can't take
patches that are posted off the web and apply them.  It would be nice
if we could have both: normally the page would be quoted, but you
could click on some link to get the unquoted version, suitable for
patching with.

-- 
Mark Mitchell		mmitchell@usa.net
Stanford University	http://www.stanford.edu




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