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