No way to indent text?

[david parsons]

In article <3561cc6d0908042326j34319e38wc333e41e3a0743d5 at mail.gmail.com>,
Dan Dascalescu  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>How could one indent (not quote) a block of text?

>

>This is commonly done in Wikipedia with one or more colons at the

>beginning of the line, and is very handy for threaded discussions.


    It looks like what Wikipedia does is to use lists for indentation.
    I don't know if the indentation is done by the wiki or if people
    are expected to hand-format their followups, but it seems a bit
    out of the scope of what markdown is capable of doing.

    -david parsons