Writing emails in text/gemini?

> I think the person/people who was/were really pushing hard for this were
> really invested in a relatively complicated form of it which was
> infinitely nestable, so it could be used to represent e.g. deep comment
> threads, and I wasn't super keen on that idea.

Hehe, that person was me. Yep, I've been thinking about it more, and I
agree with you. I think it would be just fine to have comments without
nesting. Going out of our way to support deep comment threads would
help proxies while distracting from the high-value, original content
that attracts people (or at least me) to gopher & gemini in the frst
place.

> As a purely optional line-type with no special semantics, acting just as
> a styling hint, the way unordered item lists are currently implemented,
> I think I'm actually fairly unopposed to adding this.

Yay!

> Of course it would, like everything else, be strictly line-based, so
> quoting multi-paragraph content might not format the way people
> expect...

Hmm, we could just use multiple quotes, right? One per paragraph?

~ Aaron

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