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echo: public_domain
to: Alexander Watson Law
from: rowan crowe
date: 1995-04-28 08:43:46
subject: Quoting

Answering msg from Alexander Watson Law to Paul Edwards,
on Saturday April 22 1995 at 02:31

 AWL> Maybe we need a new format for quoting.

 AWL> Something like

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

 AWL> Which would display much as a block of quoted text does now, and go
 AWL> throught the same gyrations as it was edited for brevity/falsification
 AWL> etc...

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

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