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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: APC UPS owners or potential buyers, trying to show user base
Date: 31 Jul 1994 02:17:10 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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Message-ID: <31f1j6$hdr@u.cc.utah.edu>
References: <JOHNSONM.94Jul28233853@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu> <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com> <JOHNSONM.94Jul30211022@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu>
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In article <JOHNSONM.94Jul30211022@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu> johnsonm@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu (Michael K. Johnson) writes:
]
] In article <CtpoIA.JJH@newsserver.aggregate.com> rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:
[ ... ]
] I did not write that. Please keep your attributions straight. I
] wrote a response which contained that text, but that was written by
] someone else.
]
] The Smart-UPS's use some sort of dongle RS232 cable if I remember
] correctly, i.e. it's not a normal RS232 cable since it has extra
] components in it. Once you have one of those cables its some sort
] of 1 or 2 letter commands sort of thing to get info out of the
] UPS.
It is difficult to keep this particular "indentation is quoting" style
of reply straight, since there isn't a physical marker and you don't
also indent the article attribution ("In article" ...). Generally,
indentation is used for paragraph starts or for emphasis.
There is also a fundamental assumption in doing this that the news reader
that a potential responder is using is not using variable width fonts
anyway; the columnar form using spaces doesn't guarantee a clean left
margin to allow the viewer to visually line it up... for instance, many
X based news readers don't have fixed-width (terminal) fonts.
Do you use this method to get around the "more new than quoted material"
restriction some news reader/posters have?
If so, a better method would be to turn the default quote character (on
my system, ']') to another printable character (like '[' -- notice that
sometimes my "quoted material" markers are reversed?) instead of a series
of spaces.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.