On 2019 Apr 03 22:21:00, you wrote to me:

 AA>>>>> Next, I might look into the quoting options. By default it is just
 AA>>>>> the ">" char.  Not sure if I want the First Last initials look.

 ml>>>> you should... it is the defacto FTN quoting standard... especially
 ml>>>> if it adds new ">" to the right of existing ones which is another
 ml>>>> defacto FTN quoting standard... i've been manually fixing them in
 ml>>>> many of our posts back and forth...

 AA> The above "quote" is for you.  ;)

 :) it looks good :)

 AA> (Accomplished with oxp config.  Maybe there should be a space after
 AA> the ">" ?)

no... only the last one or else you end up eating a space after each ">" for no 
good reason... that also takes away from what can be presented on each quoted 
line... plus the nice compact form looks much better :)

 ml>> ... the FTN way is totally alien and more advanced than what the 'net
 ml>> offers...

 AA> "advanced" ?? Hmmm..  It's certainly "different".   I personally like
 AA> the initials method.  It leaves no doubt as to the author of the text.

yup, and that's the main point...

 AA> But I also believe it's not entirely necessary (as mentioned and
 AA> explained previously).

there's a consistancy thing, too... i remember on RIME/PCRelay, the quoting 
stuff was a lot different... most of it was, as i recall, wrapped in boxes with 
the attribution in the top of the box... i had several that i used at that 
time... some even had 3D shadows... ANSI was used quite regularly, too...

eg: ASCII boxed quoting (can't do ""high ascii"" here)

----- snip -----

  +--- august abolins wrote: ------------------------------------+
  | "advanced" ?? Hmmm..  It's certainly "different".   I        |#
  | personally like the initials method.  It leaves no doubt as  |#
  | to the author of the text.                                   |#
  +--------------------------------------------------------------+#
   ################################################################

  my response would be here...

  +--- august abolins wrote: ------------------------------------+
  | But I also believe it's not entirely necessary (as mentioned |#
  | and explained previously).                                   |#
  +--------------------------------------------------------------+#
   ################################################################

  more response here...

----- snip -----

it was pretty and fairly easy to read but when folks started adding all kinds 
of colors, that took away from being able to concentrate on what was being 
written...

 ml>> ..you cannot tell that when you come along later and read the same
 ml>> thread weeks later... especially if there's no initials and even
 ml>> moreso if someone has trimmed out the attributions or someone's
 ml>> editor didn't put attributions in in the first place...

 AA> ..and the whole thing hinges on the use of full and proper FN LN for
 AA> the whole thing to work.  I don't think Policy 4 states that real or
 AA> any kind of two-part name with FN LN is even required.

it is certainly nothing to do with Policy... policy is for the network... not 
the traffic carried other than commercial and spam/unwanted traffic...

 AA> Were you ever a member of Compuserve and the discussion areas?

i used compuserve for a very little while... never really liked it... 
especially since it was on a Model 100 with only a 40 character wide screen and 
i think 10 lines tall...

 AA> I liked the way their offline reader/editor handled block quotes  Very
 AA> simple with just an opening "intials tag >" at the beginning of a
 AA> block, and a closing "< initials tag" at the end.  This left the block
 AA> to re-flow as required.

yeah, i've seen that format, too... it was OK but it was still easy to lose 
parts... oh well... it also has to do with what one is used to, too... just 
like trying out other software with different key bindings, one can get used to 
it and become quite proficient...

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