In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/19/2005
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I didn't say it!
>I was quoting some of somebody else's text.
The standard Internet convention[1] for indicating that is to prefix
the text with a ">" character.
>It's almost getting to the point that including text from an OP is
>not worth it.
Especially if you don't mark it as a quote.
[1] Yes, I know that there is crappy e-mail software that makes it
more difficult than it should be, but if you don't follow the
convention then don't be surprised if people read it the way that
you posted it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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