[GTALUG] quoting email
Kevin Cozens
kevin at ve3syb.ca
Sun Jul 21 22:00:47 EDT 2024
On 2024-07-20 03:26, 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.
[snip]> 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.
I just hit reply in my email program and it decides whether it wants to use
| or > at the start of the reply lines. I've seen both over the years. It
doesn't matter to me what is used. I recognize both as marking quoted text.
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