Re: Posting Netiquette [ref: Threads "look definitely like" unreadable mess. Handbook project.]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 04:14:40 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> ; No idea what the ';' in the '“> ;”' is doing there for.

"“>” to the original message works best. Leaving white space after the
“> ;”"

This way the reader does notice the space: “> ;”
";" is a placeholder mentioning that text starts at this position.
This way the reader is missing the space:  “> ”
The text is a little bit misleading.

Résumé:

Before posting to a list a user should read a very long netiquette
studded with terms (e.g. white space) never heard before and with
ambiguous explanations (e.g. > ;).