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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> I have just read my first post on nnslashdot, and I must admit it came
> out rather differently than I intended.
> 
> > I quoted the
> > original message
> > like this
> 
>         > And this > is what > I saw,
>     the quoting characters > were sprinkled
>     through > the whole paragraph.

Hm.  nnslashdot-request-post removes "> " at the start of lines and
does a <blockquote> instead.  Do you use a different quoting char?

> Also, I used lots of empty lines to separate paragraphs, but they all
> got run together.
> 
> Should I have put HTML tags in my posting?

I've not made the function put <p> into blank lines.

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