On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 02:12:39PM -0500, David T-G (dis)graced my inbox with: > % > Do you want my semi-canned answer, or should I just keep quiet on this > % > one? :-)/2 > % > % I want your answer, so I may decide on a suitable punishment :) > > Fair enough. Here ya go (with apologies to those who have seen this > recently :-) > > It all started back in the Usenet news days of 1989 and 1990, before > Linux had hit the scene (ca 1991, IIRC) and when the web was still a gleam
_April_, 1991 ;) > I've simply kept it since then, and it's relatively unique and still > recognizable. Great, now all we need is a unique mail quote character for everybody who uses email. And we need to devise a way so that when we quote email, we quote it with _their_ quote character, not ours. That way we know who wrote it, not who's replying to it ;) -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Energy is a precious joule.
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