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[OT] Quoting (was: OT: Quoting)

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> 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. […]

Shoot!  I shouldn't have missed that.  Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

> 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.

And also I'm saddened that there is no general standard.

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

ACK.  Thanks.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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