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- From: peta@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Peter Whaite)
- Subject: Re: First person supercite attribution and citation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.195615.11445@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
- References: <1992Jul30.223022.26683@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <JSC.92Jul31110000@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 19:56:15 GMT
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- In article <JSC.92Jul31110000@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM> jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM (John Cooper) writes:
- >> "Peter" == Peter Whaite <peta@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul30.223022.26683@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> peta@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Peter Whaite) writes:
- >
- > Peter> When I am citing one of my own mail messages I would like
- > Peter> supercite to give me something like:
- >
- > >>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 92 14:13:17 -0400, I said:
- >
- > Me> Blah blah blather blather blither blither. Blah blah blather blather
- > Me> blither blither. Blah blah blather blather blither blither. Blah blah
- > Me> blather blather blither blither.
- >
- >Note when someone replies to you (as I am doing now), the above 'Me'
- >citation remains intact, but it doesn't refer to me - it refers to you
- >instead!! In general any citations matching 'Me' or 'You' need to be
- >toggled in the reply. I believe this is something that Barry Warsaw is
- >working on for Supercite V3.0, which is expected some time in the Fall
- >of this year.
- >--
-
- Yes -- I actually sent off a message with "You>" in it. When I saw the reply
- I thought "uh oh", was I naive?!! Not only will "Me" and "You" have to be
- toggled in reply, but should others join in the discussion (or comment upon
- it) then proper names will have to be substituted correctly. This is sounding
- pretty complicated.
-
- Thanks for the information. I'll wait for V3.0.
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