# Welcome

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**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [March 11, 1999, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/430 "1999-03-11T05:38:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 1999, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome/430/32 "1999-03-12T15:45:00Z")

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> Okay, it’s all about square brackets. You remember those? This time you put stuff IN 'em like so . . . the square bracket starts ([) and you put  
> QUOTE _and then the end of the bracket (])_ and that turns it on . . . you cut and paste what you need to quote . . and at the end of it you put another  
> square bracket ([)/quote(]) and that turns it off. \*\*Of course you don’t use those parenthesis, I put those around the brackets so as not to invoke the  
> command.

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I _am_ intelligent, I _am_ intelligent «sulk»

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