peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (07/26/90)
On the little twiddles at the end of the line... > You're probably right about most people, but I'd guess that most people ~ > at sites with more than one main feed would prefer junking mangled ~ > articles. And all people everywhere would probably prefer that a ~ > mangled copy get replaced by a good copy if one happens along somehow. It occurs to me that it might be better to mark hard carriage returns than soft ones. / It might also be less disturbing for the casual reader if the *beginning* +of continuation lines were marked, a-la FORTRAN, instead of the end. At +least people are *used to seeing stuff there. You would have to somehow +get people to standardise quotations, though, which might be an insur- +mountable problem. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>