Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21 Jan 2002 19:04 -0500]: > * 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. ;-))
Yeah, I remember the thread. I didn't realize that there were clients out there that did stuff like that. Stupid AND patronizing. > > > 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. Actually, it's literally correct (in the sense that quoting text using "quotation marks" is correct) in France I believe, although there's a single character rendition that's more often used. It would be analogous to ``closed with''. I'm sure it wasn't conceived as i18n support in this context though 8-I -- http://www.epic.org - Electronic Privacy Information Center
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