On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:20:51PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 08:59:53AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Which RFC specifies the multi-> quoting, anyway? > > IIRC, it's in no RFC--it's a DEFACTO standard from almost 50 years of > convention.
Though the RFCs for flowed text (2646, 3676, section 4.5) do specify ">" as the canonical quote marker for format=flowed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style mentions: There is no standard declaring one quote-prefix to be "right" and others to be "wrong", but some standards depend on conventional quoting. The (unpublished) "son-of-1036" draft recommends ">" as the quote-prefix; the son-of-1036 draft is in rfc1849. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1849 w
