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Indent-o-Meter
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A fiendishly clever ASCII display hack that became a brief fad in 1993-1994;
it used combinations of tabs and spaces to produce an analog indicator of
the amount of indentation an included portion of a reply had undergone. The
full story is at http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/indent.html.