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Timothy A. McDaniel
tmcd at crl.com
Tue May 26 21:47:52 PDT 1998
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Mary Temple <noxcat at hotmail.com> wrote:
> [other opinions] have been attributed to me in error.
On closer inspection, they were not actually attributed to
you. At the head of the text was:
>>On Thu, 21 May 1998 13:00:30 PDT "Mary Temple" <noxcat at hotmail.com>
>>writes:
>>>
>
>>While it is true that a new person may get a bad impression, a woman
>>would want to know if a man was potentially dangerous, at least I
The "Mary Temple" ID line and the text following it are both
indented by ">>". Standard net practice is for the ID to be
exdented for the quote, as in
In message <333 at millenium.falcon.com>, Leia wrote:
>In message <666 at deathstar.com>, Darth Vader wrote:
>> The Alderan system will be going down immediately.
>> There is no projected uptime.
>> All users should save their souls, er, files.
> THEY KILLED ALDERAN! THE BASTARDS!
In the example, Darthie wrote the ">>" text, and Leia wrote
the cheap South Park ripoff.
The person doing the quoting was being sloppy in their
trimming -- they trimmed all Mary's text except one blank
line (>>>), and had unattributed text after. Confusing as
all hell.
Daniel "belts and braces" de Lincolia
--
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at crl.com;
if that fail, tmcd at austin.ibm.com is my work address.
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