Indent-o-Meter

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Indent-o-Meter[] 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'.