On Friday, December 15, 2000, Jamie Dainton [Bat] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>ML> Sorry, I don't. I'm on lots of mailing lists where people use all
>ML> kinds of mail software, but I still don't see why it's better to add
>ML> quotation signs at the start of blanks lines.
>
> I agree with Ming-li on this one. You don't quote a blank line it's
> just there. A quote shows that someone previously wrote the text. A
> blank line does not have an owner.
If a blank line exists within the quoted material, then the quotation
indication should precede the blank line as well as all other quoted
lines.
This is one aspect of TB's quoting that is a continual nuisance for
me. I'm tired of typing in ">" where TB leaves them out. :-)
Ron
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