More silly text/gemini spec proposals

Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Fri May 29 04:46:27 BST 2020



> On May 29, 2020, at 05:18, poomklao at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> # Blockquotes
> 
> Pretty much the same as in Markdown:
> 
> >> Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space in between gopher and the web.
> >>
> >> It strives to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.
> > I think we need to be careful, because we could very well
> >
> > uh
> >
> > inherit the worst of both of them

Ehehe! :D

Actually, blockquotes (or should it be linequotes?), are more in the spirit of text/gemini line oriented format. 

And they predate markdown  by a a good decade, or two, or three:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Quoted_line_prefix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_quoting




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