Forgive the off-topic post, but over on a newsgroup I frequent, one of the old-timers made a claim that "*" was frequently used for attributions back in the Good Old Days before the current crop of "lesser quality" newsreaders. Instead of:
On Tuesday November 3 2009, Fred said: > blah blah blah this poster uses: * Fred: > blah blah blah and claims it is "clearer". I can't say I've ever seen this, but I've only been using Usenet for 15-odd years, so not an old-timer. Any old-timers ever seen this and like to comment? -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
