Hallo Thomas,

Deine Nachricht vom Sonntag, 03. Oktober 1999:

> Hello Werner,

> Sunday, October 03, 1999, 8:32:52 PM, Werner Arts wrote:

TF>>>>> This TB does not know whether anything is a name or another string of
TF>>>>> characters, it will assume that everything in front of a ">" is
TF>>>>> suposed to be there, and the quote only starts after this character.

WA>>>> In this case the additional ">" would be wrong.

>>> I think it is right. The quote starts after the "greater than"
>>> character. See how there are two of these in from of the "TF" - my
>>> original reply - now? If it were ">TF>" that would be rather
>>> confusing.

WA>> Why? It shows, that "TF" is quoted.
Inserting a ">>>" *into* a quoted line changes the original text
             ^^
These are wrong, and change the quoted text unauthorized.

WA>>          *unauthorized*

> I see your point, which is valid if it is some other text and not the
> sender's name/initials etc. So, what's your suggestion? How should
> this be handled, assuming you like the initials?

Quoting sign at the beginning of the line.

> BTW, Werner, I just realized that we are dicussing this in the wrong
> list; we should move to TBUDL.

OK

-- 
Grüße,
Werner Arts                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]



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