jim said:
>   Now maybe to some of you -- you consider this result
>   to be a good thing, an acceptable thing, a thing that
>   well-represents the considerable efforts of the PG volunteers.

i doubt there is anyone who thinks that.

what you ended up with is pure shit.

that's because you did it wrong.

you rewrapped lines that weren't supposed to be rewrapped.

if you would have done it correctly, it would've come out right.

but you did it wrong.

now, your point is probably that we should make it easier
for our users to do it correctly.  and nobody will disagree...

we _should_ make it easier for our users to do it correctly.

and there's an (awfully) easy way to make it easier, which is to
mark all lines that should not be rewrapped with leading spaces.

but the whitewashers won't do it.

why won't the whitewashers do it?

i dunno.  you'll have to ask them.  i've certainly asked them.
i've asked them to do it, pretty please.  i've asked them again
to do it, pretty please.  i've asked 'em why they haven't done it.
i've said, repeatedly, that i think it's stupid they haven't done it.

and they still don't do it.  not all the time, anyway.

they do it some of the time.  i consider that a very slight victory.

-bowerbird