On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 12:53:27PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > 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. > Rob first said> Great, now all we need is a unique mail quote character for everybody and then continued with> who uses email. And we need to devise a way so that when we quote email, subsequently saying> we quote it with _their_ quote character, not ours. That way we know who and finally posited> wrote it, not who's replying to it ;)
-- Regards Cliff
