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   Message 2,786 of 4,347   
   Tommi Koivula to Anton Shepelev   
   Fresh blood!   
   19 Oct 19 09:59:46   
   
   MSGID: 2:221/360 5daab45c   
   REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5da8d7e0   
   PID: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32)   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   Anton Shepelev wrote:   
      
   AS> Will you demur if I invite an acquaintance to this echo who   
   AS> is absolutely new to Fidonet and will not be able to use the   
   AS>   
   AS> SJ> traditional   
   AS>   
   AS> style of quoation because she will be accessing Fido through   
   AS> an NNTP gateway and post via a newsreader?  I too have gone   
   AS> that way, but I am typesetting my messages in GNU Troff,   
   AS> in which I have implemented Fidonet quotations as a macro :-)   
      
   I'm sure the quotation style is not the most important thing. :)   
      
   Some newsreaders can quote fidonet-style, I just set the quote string in this   
   Sylpheed to "%I> ", and it shows your initials quite fine. ;)   
      
   'Tommi   
      
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