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[SCOTT A WAGGONER]

To end a little confusion, I believe the mystery quote being refered to
was from my lady, Raven (ravensmk at juno.com). She is still getting the
hang of the internet email thing.  She has progressed fantastically, but
still is learning etiquette, format, and common conventions. Her first
messages looked like "HI THERE THIS IS RAVEN! YELLING? WHO? ME?"  



Lord Mayne de la Croix --- The original MiB
Gate's Edge Canton, Barony of  Stargate,  Ansteorra



On Tue, 26 May 1998 23:47:52 -0500 (CDT) "Timothy A. McDaniel"
<tmcd at crl.com> writes:
>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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