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to: Paul Edwards
from: Rod Speed
date: 1995-02-23 22:00:38
subject: ui

BG> The only other complaint I have re quoting is that quoted
BG> text does not start in the first column, but is transposed
BG> one space to the right (as with your quoted text in this
BG> message).  It can't be all that hard to fix,

BG> surely.

PE> The above was done with the BRAND NEW MSQHACK2.ZIP.  Why don't you
PE> give it a go and see if it is working the way you expected?  BFN.

PE> Ok, as you can see, your text is now not indented.  I don't think
PE> you expected the old quoted text to be fixed up did you?  I checked
PE> at what MSGED did in this circumstance, and it indents newly quoted
PE> text by 1 space, and the old quoted text it seems to make sure is
PE> indented by 1 space too.  So I'm not sure if this change is going to
PE> be universally welcomed.  But I think it's better than how it was.

The approved style is to indent one space. I dont care for it myself.

And I dont agree with the philosophy, that style stuff should be in
a standard IMO. Pretty sure its an FSC or sumfin, too lazy to check.

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