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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: rn(1) readers: fix followup ugliness!
Message-ID: <8480@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 02:16:53 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 02:16:53 1986
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In article <2604@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
>I have found the follow-up format that rn
>uses for formating included articles rather messy looking.
>A heading line is followed directly by the included text,
>and the ">"'s at the beginnings of lines are inserted with
>no following space!  It looks very crowded.

This is a matter of taste. Would you rather see

>> junk junk junk

or

> > junk junk?

I'd rather see the former. 

What I hate is people who put in blank lines between paragraphs, disabling
my ability to skip included material with TAB in rn. Please keep the > in!
-- 
 (C) 1986 Joe Random is not a valid copyright.
 Copyright 1986 Joe Random is.

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