[LMB] Alternate easy methods to tag quotes

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 10:30 PM 3/9/2008, Elvi Dalgaard wrote:
>Peter H. Granzeau wrote:
>>>>> I'll give this carat-thing a shot for quoting; I don't want to hand-carat 
>>>>> everything, either. But I will try to keep the quoting to the absolute 
>>>>> minimum.
>>>>>         
>>>> Carat?  I thought that was a measurement of fineness in gold? 
>>>>       
>>> The word Mikki is after is caret (wedge-shaped mark).
>>>     
>>
>> This is a caret:  ^.  It's not normally used for quoting.  I have used it to denote powers of ten (such as, 1000 += 10 ^ 3).
>>   
> From the Wikipedia page on the caret:
>"Another use of the term /caret/ is as a simple name for the 
>greater-than sign, ">", when used as a prefix on lines of text being 
>replied to in email or other posts."

Is there a citation on that statement?  If not, it's invalid.