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Tim Streater wrote:

> In article <m6ss06$rk4$1@solani.org>, Christoph M. Becker
> <cmbecker69@arcor.de> wrote:
> 
>> BTW: Tim, your newsreader creates rather unconventional nested quotes;
>> usually there is only a single space after the last >, but your software
>> puts spaces between the quotes.
> 
> Mmmm. Yes, I've seen that. This is Thoth, which is perhaps not clever
> enough to add a space after the last quote. I've altered the default
> quoting, but as you see, it now looks like there are no spaces at all.

Indeed.  However, 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>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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                Re: OT: Quoting Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-12-18 00:21 +0100
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