In a message of 26 Jun 96 David Drummond wrote to Matthew Palmer:

 MP>> I never, ever, stated that it was my own design, arsehole.   Had you
 MP>> been slightly more perceptive, you might have noticed  that the portion
 MP>> you quoted was not indented, while the  portion I wrote (instead of the
 MP>> portion that you quoted,  which was part of the file I posted) was
 MP>> indented a single  line.
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 DD> This may come a surprise to you Matthew, but some message editors
 DD> reformat text to suit the recipient's screen dimensions(132x40).  If
 DD> the line of text doesn't have the quote characters at the start, it is
 DD> formatted exactly as all other lines of text without quote characters.

 DD> There was no noticable "indent" difference on my screen between the
 DD> opening lines (which I now know you definitely DID write), and the "my
 DD> own design" line (which you claim was a quote).

Hmmm..

The opening lines were indented one space here, while the supposed quote
was not indented at all.

I wonder what it would look like if it was indented by 'a single line' ?


Geoff

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