From: Seth Breidbart (sethb@panix.com)
Date: Fri May 14 1999 - 10:14:38 CDT
>>I think the "> " convention is not only the most common, but the
>>easiest to comprehend and read.
>
> Only as long as you don't have nested quotes. With nested quotes it is
> easier to comprehend the old BBS style, where the author's initials
> are prepended to the "> ".
That doesn't apply when there's a combination of styles of quoting
(which there will be for the foreseeable future no matter what we say
is correct). Also, some variations don't indicate the level (just the
poster), which is confusing when somebody has posted several times
during a thread.
Seth