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Posted by Mark L Pappin on August 5, 2008, 11:22 pm
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hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
[bottom-posted reply, un-indented original]
> Is this a new 'approved' standard?
No; there is no 'approved' standard - there are recommended practices
and [usually per-newsgroup] conventions. There are also half-donkeyed
practices like top-posting and the bottom-posting variant you have
noted which are encouraged by the default behaviours of some client
software with particularly high market penetration.
> I like the > style much better.
Then keep using it until the Usenet Police knock down your door and
force you to change.
mlp
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