Hello mark!


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...

Well...there is always the thread tree to refer to see the participate  
chain.


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...

Ah.. yes, I forgot about that.  The >'s are still there when switching to  
a courier font for example.


> 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...

Yes..  sometimes a little fixing is required.   But I look for  
opportunities to minimize quoted text if it is not relevant in the current  
reply so that there is less fixing required. ;)

Regards,
  ../|ug

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