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echo: public_domain
to: rowan crowe
from: Alexander Watson Law
date: 1995-05-03 20:07:34
subject: Quoting

AWL> ^AQB"RS"
AWL> [Rod waffles on for a few dozen lines with soft (or no) 
AWL> CRs] ^AQE

 rc> Sigh. ^aSOT/^aEOT already makes enough mess in the text 
 rc> body -- and that's only 2 lines! Having 2 kludges for every 
 rc> quoted paragraph would be an absolute disaster for the 
 rc> eyes.

It would take some getting used to, but would reduce message sizes in the
mailbase, and in transit by 2% or so...



Hmmm... Why not a new .SQ?-oid message base using either 7/8bit or the GNU
gzip compression? .SZ? messagebase anyone? Means a new version of SQuish,
or at the least an updated MSGAPI (D'OH, DOS users)...

...Alex.
(Pagan & Proud)

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