On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:49 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > 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?
Haven't seen it, so far as my two remaining brain cells can recall. I've only been a 'serious' Usenet user since 1994; it might predate that. Further, I have always been into Usenet mostly for the binaries, with discussion and group camaraderie messages within such environments valued but secondary, so I dunno how the Australopithecus Masters may have handled things in their text-only realms. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
