| Richard Herring 2004-11-03, 5:53 pm |
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In message <8msho0dlp7hsbs9ohnta5m3qcc28dk7reo@4ax.com>, Programmer Dude
<Chris@Sonnack.com> writes
>Thomas G. Marshall writes:
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That would be the Internet-Draft-that-never-made-it, commonly known as
"son of RFC1036", which says:
This SHOULD be done by prefacing each quoted line (even if it is empty)
with the character ">".[vbcol=seagreen]
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>Of course not. We're talking about *tradition*, not a standard.
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>That newsreaders have come to do something fancy with that
>tradition means *nothing*. EVERY SINGLE newsreader I know
>allows you to configure your quote style.
This one doesn't.
>That should tell
>you something.
>
Any chance you could take this discussion somewhere where it's on-topic?
I'd set followups, but it wouldn't be fair to any of the groups it's
being crossposted to at present.
--
Richard Herring
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