MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d7100671   
   REPLY: 1:3634/12.73 5ca4e289   
   PID: OpenXP/5.0.36 (Win32)   
   CHRS: ASCII 1   
   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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