[GTALUG] quoting email

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Lost the battle about how to type it, but won the war of display. Convention is now that paragraphs/lines preceded with ">" are rendered with a left border, which is basically the effect you were going for in the first place. 

On Sat, Jul 20, 2024, at 3:26 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I've been using "| " to prefix each quoted line in email.
> I've done this since before "> " became a convention.
> Perhaps 45 years.
> I think that it looks better and clearer.
> 
> I've just given up that fight.  The trouble is I confuse too many 
> correspondents who aren't aware of this.  And too many of their MUAs.
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