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echo: english_tutor
to: ANTON SHEPELEV
from: TOMMI KOIVULA
date: 2019-10-19 09:56:00
subject: Fresh blood!

Anton Shepelev wrote:

AS> Will you demur if I invite an acquaintance to this echo who
AS> is absolutely new to Fidonet and will not be able to use the
AS>
AS> SJ> traditional
AS>
AS> style of quoation because she will be accessing Fido through
AS> an NNTP gateway and post via a newsreader?  I too have gone
AS> that way, but I am typesetting my messages in GNU Troff,
AS> in which I have implemented Fidonet quotations as a macro :-)

I'm sure the quotation style is not the most important thing. :)

Some newsreaders can quote fidonet-style, I just set the quote string in this
Sylpheed to "%I> ", and it shows your initials quite fine. ;)

'Tommi

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