Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21 Jan 2002 17:56 -0500]: > I've seen something like this on this list in the past, *in > jest*, in a similar thread: > > This line is quoted text> > This line is quoted text>
Emacs and Pine both support per-message quote characters. I think the idea is to choose something that identifies the person, like: BC> This line is quoted text> BC> This line is quoted text> > 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. > It seems they're all LookOut users as well. Where the heck > people get that crap is beyond me. Simple: defaults. Default behaviour is what most non-technical users end up with. I've heard it called "flashing 12:00 syndrome", referencing the inability of most over-12-year-olds to program a VCR. -- http://www.epic.org - Electronic Privacy Information Center
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