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hi all somewhere somehow in the past four years of being etherized [addicted to the e-mail mode of communication] i adopted the established custom of using the >>> marks to 'interlace' my own comments with those in a message which i reply to i am curious as to the origins of this custom my hunch is that the original [10-20 years ago?] users of e-mail [research folk at universities world wide?] who exchanged complicated and lengthy correspondence used the >>> marks to keep track of who said what in a 'cyber-conversation' and that the > mark was used way back then as a means of differentiating between the current message and a copy of the message being replied to does anyone else [aged computer geeks?] have any light to shed on this? janet janet paterson - 51 now /41 dx /37 onset - almonte/ontario/canada <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/index.htm> [log in to unmask]