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When Usenet and e-mail users respond to a message, they often want to include some context for the discussion. This is often accomplished by quoting a portion of the original message using Usenet conventions. In essence the convention is to communicate in plain text format (not HTML) and quote with ">" at the beginning of each line, ">>" for a quote of quote, and so on. Most email clients can perform Usenet quoting automatically. ==Examples== Usenet standard quoting refers to the practice of preceding the original message with the ">" (or right-angle bracket) character at the beginning of each line, and then inserting one's responses inline, using no special designator for the author's messages.
When a second response is made to the second message, the second message is again quoting with >, perhaps causing parts of the original message to now be designated with >>. Such nested quotations can technically be continued indefinitely, but quickly become cumbersome.
Enhanced quoting (such as facilitating by the Emacs supercite module), includes more context by using the initials or a short form of the name. The program has to be careful not to quote already quoted material:
It is often the case that it makes sense, particularly in the simple quoting case, to insert a note telling who said what:
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