Re: [Pan-users] OT: calling all old-timers -- using * for attributions

[Brad Rogers]

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:36:03 -0400
Rob <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Rob,

> Maybe the asterisk thing was a FidoNet or other BBS-oriented form of 
> attribution, but I don't remember it.  I have used some tty-based chat 

My usenet use goes back to about 1992, with approx ten yrs BBSing
prior and I don't recall seeing it on Fido, or any other fido type
network, either.

Arguably, the * does make the attribution stand out, but AFAIR it's
never been "standard".

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