From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Sun Nov 02 1997 - 10:13:00 CST
rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote on 22.10.97 in <m3201edl1g.fsf@windlord.Stanford.EDU>:
> sign (which you mentioned in your list) and still allows nested comments
Nested comments happen to be used fairly often, so I doubt outlawing them
is even remotely possible.
> I also frankly see very little point in address groups period, in either
> mail or news, and am a bit baffled over the intended semantics, but that
> may just be me. :)
Not only you. The only obvious use I know of is like this:
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MfG Kai