How to get ">" symbol when referring to articles?

[S.PEARSE]

Is there an elegant way to get the ">" symbol before articles when
referring to other people's postings? For example:

>This is an article posted by someone else
>They always seem to have that symbol
>at the far left.

Is this a special command, or do people just painstakingly
insert the > sign in front of mail read into the buffer?

Curious,
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Steve Pearse
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