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In article <818271966snz@wash.demon.co.uk>, John Washington
<john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes

>If you can quote something from a document that strongly
>discourages it (e.g. the kind of comments that netiquette
>guides make about 4+ line .sigs) I'll chew on it.

"Son-of-RFC1036" 4.3.2 Body Conventions has a SHOULD requirement for
using ">". NB: no other characters, just ">". He notes that ">" should
go onto empty lines as well so that reading agents can easily implement
"skip all quoted text".

>Client support?  What's that about?  I just find these
>quotes visually helpful.  And what does FIDO have to do
>with this?

this style is common (I am told) in FIDO systems. I understand from
other discussions that there is header information which makes it easier
to determine what initials to use, and the editors have suitable code
for handling the nesting.

>Just think of my posts as having no .sig, but
>their bodies ending in a couple of dashes and my name.
>
>Do you have a problem with that?

"Son-of-RFC1036" also has a SHOULD for the .sig separator, and many
reading agents strip them off automajically (which means new users don't
quote sigs - which is a good thing for us all). However, removing a .sig
is hardly a lot of work so its no real problem.

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