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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.misc
Subject: Re: Messages with >80-character lines
Message-ID: <8831@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 12:28:43 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 12:28:43 1987
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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> ... Unfortunately, there are some folks out there who use
> "\n[ \t][ \t]*" rather than "\n\n" as their paragraph separator...
> Write a filter that recognizes both formats, you say?  Good idea, but now I
> have to worry about the people who think that indentation is a good way to
> highlight quoted text... [and so on]

However, it is probably easier (if that is the word) and less painful to
convince people to adhere to standards in such things than to convince them
to shift to a new and *incompatible* standard.  The former can be at least
partly automated, by the way.
-- 
PS/2: Yesterday's hardware today.    |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry