On 2019 Apr 03 09:09:10, 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 if
 ml>> 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> I dunno.  TB won't do it (unless there is a working Add-On that does it?).

there is not... the FTN way is totally alien and more advanced than what the
'net offers...

 AA> Besides, if the conversation is between two persons, it is easy to
 AA> recognize which person wrote what.

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

 AA> It is commendable of you to fix the lines and add the initials.  (I

thanks...

 AA> have done that too.)  But it's really not necessary for every line.

it is if you answer inline like we do instead of top or bottom posting...

 AA> If it is a very large block, why not save some work and do something
 AA> like:

ugh...

 AA> adverb: defacto

 AA>     1. in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not.

 AA> I would think of the "FL >" initials method more of as a "common
standard".

it was but back in the '90s, the quoting format in FTNs changed so that you
could actially tell the level of quotes lines have been through...

 AA> But just the brackets is fine for me. TB does a fairly decent
 AA> replacement of the >>'s with vertical ||'s and is just as easy to deal
 AA> with.

that's just a visual thing when reading... the ">" are still used and can be
seen if you edit a draft... i've had to fix some that were quite ugly and then
there's the ones where a blank line at the end of a text block gets a quote
mark on it and the reply starts on the same line as that empty quote... that
makes it look like there is no reply and the reply text is wrongly attributed
to the person quoted...

 AA> In fact, oxp adds colour to the different levels of ">>", so actual
 AA> initials aren't really necessary.  The colour makes things very clear who
 AA> said what.

no, not who... only the different levels of quoting... TimED, GoldED, and
likely MsgED do the same... it helps to break the quoted parts out...

 AA> Nothing wrong with a little variety, eh?  

nope :)

 AA>>> oxp is clean and simple in operation.  It really brings back a
 AA>>> feeling from the late 90's though.

 ml>> that's as it should be -=B-)

 AA> Well, I've certainly got a lot of variety between TB, Winpoint and
 AA> OpenXP, don't I?   :/

yup :)

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