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Re: ADDGROUP with 'real' names

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From: Richard Clayton
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <818118642snz@wash.demon.co.uk>, John Washington
<john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes

>On Sunday, in article <818020214snz@lloyney.demon.co.uk>
>     rob@lloyney.demon.co.followup-to "Rob Coles" wrote:
>
>RC> Thanks for posting the source John.. I don`t suppose you`d consider also
>RC> posting your routines for quoting the initials of the poster when following
>RC> up? I seem to remember seeing in your messages.
>
>Would you believe if I said I add them by hand?  :-)
>
>And, warning, some people don't like the way I push
>quotes more quickly off the screen.

and some people don't think they're appropriate for Usenet where almost
no clients support them :(  The FIDO readers which support them rely on
seeing leading spaces on the lines involved so as to avoid double
quoting, but this leads to other difficulties when there are spaces at
the start of lines for other reasons.  see news.software.readers passim.

>--
>John Washington

the space on your "-- " has been eaten by something :(

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