Re: Question on Sigs...

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� ..----- On Wed, 26 May 1999 04:10:56 +0200, Veronica Karlsson posted:
� |
� |Well, that just _looks bad_ in long threads. Also it is a bit confusing.
� |For example, if I know that one specific person uses one specific
� |character or character combination (other than ">" or "> ") for quoting
� |then I tend to associate that combination with that person. The
� |confusing thing about this is that the quoted text is specifically _not_
� |written by that person. 

I use the smallest possible character still visible, the cedilla, as my
attribution mark.  Whenever I see it in a thread, I know that I've chosen
to quote someone.  The only problem with it is that there are some character
sets that do no display the cedilla, and when it's quoted by someone using
a non latin-1 charset it ends up as some ugly hexidecimal notation.

� |A plain ">" (or "> ") is much easier to read,
� |IMO (also, my news reader uses a different colour for lines beginning
� |with a '>', but not for lines beginning with, e.g. ":" or "++").
� |
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� Or |, ' and . I assume ?

You can set many newsreaders to recognize any number of character combinations
as quote markers, and the freeware NewsXpress that I'm using at the moment
(the linux box went down with a bang) highlights the "|" symbol automatically.

When I get the new linux box (ha ha it's still a P90) online, I'll see if I
can write a slang macro to remove the spaces before the common quote markers.
It's not really ascii art, but I love the look of a long cascade of 
nonsequiturs rolling down the page, and I hate to see the pattern ruined by
line breaks.  I'll take a few moments to think up a reply, then spend a couple
of minutes reformatting the previous responses so that the cascade is neat
and all the attributes are clearly defined.  My wife has suggested I do some
research into "obsessive compulsive disorder" and I don't know why...

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