Re: spaces after a period (Was: Re: diff between sprintf() and fprintf())

On 2006-05-23, Mike Barnes <may2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In alt.usage.english, Skitt wrote:
Jordan Abel wrote:
Skitt wrote:
blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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... and signed it, putting ">" marks before each of the two
signature lines. I don't know if that kills the automatic signature
deletion for other newsreader clients, but it sure does for mine.
Mine leaves the signature and adds another ">", marking it as quoted
material from some previous poster (as I show below). I originally
thought you were quoting someone else's signature for some strange
reason.

B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the
favor.

Please remove the ">" marks from your sig.

Your newsreader is misinterpreting vertical-bar characters as quote
marks. This is common, for some reason, but i've never heard of
a newsreader going and _replacing_ them with > characters.

Vertical bar marks are legitimate quote markers, I'm quite sure. Their
replacement with ">" is an option I have activated in my newsclient.

...with the result that you misquoted BLM. Deactivating that option
could be the best way to go.

What do you mean by "legitimate quote markers" by the way? It's not a
concept I understand.

He means whatever his newsreader supports, and whatever he's heard of
that it doesn't.

Incidentally, i'd suggest that he turn that off because often people who
_do_ use an alternate quote marker for part of their quoted text are
doing so to avoid giving the appearance that the quoted text so marked
comes from the post being replied to (when citing from an article, an
RFC, or something) - changing the quote marker in that case would be
ill-advised.
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