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- FSC-0032 May 1, 1989
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- Uniform EchoMail Quoting Style
- A Proposal To The FidoNet Technical Standards Committee
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- As more and more new software appears on the network, it has
- become evident that we need a universal method for quoting text
- of previous messages in replies.
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- Because of the way quoted text must appear, it is necessary to
- format said text with "Hard" <CR> characters, in order to keep
- the block from drifting should the new text itself be quoted.
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- The following method should allow current and future programs
- to properly identify and handle previously quoted material.
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- Newly quoted text should be preceeded by the a single space,
- a greater than symbol ('>') and another space.
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- Optionally a field of initials may appear in front of the
- greater than symbol, like this: " MR> ". If you allow the
- initials to be inserted, they should only be inserted into
- lines which have not been previously quoted. (in other words,
- don't add initials to anything already quoted)
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- Successive quotes of previously quoted material should only add
- a single ">" in front of the existing text, which may eliminate
- the leading blank space.
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- Blank lines in quotes should remain blank (no '>' or initials).
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- Kludge lines, including tear lines and origins lines are not
- normally quoted, but when they are - they must never be quoted
- exactly - this definitely causes problems with other software!