cites for blockquotes

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 05:52:12PM -0500, Mike Shaver wrote:
> Any thoughts on a syntax for indicating the source of a blockquoted
> citation?  Perhaps
> 
> >This is really very pithy, and will be widely
> >circulated.
> (http://www.penny-arcade.com)
> 
> ?
> 
> I'd sort of like to have those attributes in my quotes -- perhaps enough
> so to hack Markdown.pl on my own, but I thought I'd ask around here for
> the thoughts of the Elders.
> 

This is definitely something I would use, but, as the philosophy is to
have text markup that's rather similar to email, how about this
syntax:

> This is really very pithy, and will be widely
> circulated.--http://www.penny-arcade.com