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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: OT: Quoting
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Christoph M. Becker wrote:

> […] I've just looked up RFC 3676 and the section on Quoting[1] says that a
> trailing space and no trailing space are semantically identical, but
> intermediate spaces are not.  So it seems that it's more correct now (and 
> my Thunderbird shows the colored quote bars correctly).
> 
> [1] <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.5>

| 4.5.  Quoting
| 
|    In Format=Flowed, the canonical quote indicator (or quote mark) is
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|    one or more close angle bracket (">") characters. […]

By sheer coincidence, that applies to Tim’s posting.  Elsewhere it is just 
personal preference, however one can see the possibility for ambiguity of 
content; interesting.

I recommend to use the “[OT]” *tag* instead, in order to avoid the same.

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