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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Blank After Prefix
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.225552.15744@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 22:55:52 GMT
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
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- In response to my query about including a trailing blank
- at the end of the prefix string, the trick is that an
- underscore gets converted to a blank, for example
-
- prefix=>_
-
- will make your quoted messages start with lines like this:
-
- > blah blah
-
- Thanks to about half a dozen people who knew this trick.
- Now we know it too.
-
- --
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