A follow-up article often includes text that is quoted from the original article. This text is marked with a '>' and a space to set it off from the text of your article. (Other news posting programs use other conventions for quoted text.) If you break the quoted text up in any way, try to maintain this marking.
Signature
Every article that you post should have a couple of lines at the bottom for your signature - a description of who and where you are. Look at some other articles for ideas. Read news.announce.newusers for some guidelines. You can store your signature by typing it in the box provided in the Composing Preferences screen (available through the Edit menu).
