* Jonathan Irving ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Jan 21. 2002 18:57]: [...]
> Emacs and Pine both support per-message quote characters. I > think the idea is to choose something that identifies the person, > like: Hehe, no no, I meant *that exact quote prefix* :-) It'd take me forever to find the thread in the archives because I wouldn't know what to look for, but it was the thread where someone was picking on Dave's (%) quote prefix. (I gather this isn't the first time someone on the list has picked on him about that prefix. ;-)) I've used clients like TheBat! before that do it as you've pointed out below: > BC> This line is quoted text> > BC> This line is quoted text> Now /that's/ OK with me. I probably made that a bit confusing. > > Then, there's also the people that like to open a quoted > > paragraph with << and close it with >>, with no prefix in > > between. IMO, that's the most annoying thing I've ever seen. > This seems to be an AOL mailer thing. It happened a lot on a > couple of film mail lists I'm on, always from AOL addresses. Ah, yes I have seen that with AOL clients. But, I've seen it with Outlook users as well. I guess that tells me that people are picking up what their friends do. I guess It Is So in those circles. -- Brian Clark | Avoiding the general public since 1805! Fingerprint: 07CE FA37 8DF6 A109 8119 076B B5A2 E5FB E4D0 C7C8 Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art.
