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   Hello mark!   
      
   ** 04.04.19 - 11:48, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:   
      
   ml> .... i remember on RIME/PCRelay, the quoting stuff was a lot   
   ml> different... most of it was, as i recall, wrapped in boxes with  the   
   ml> attribution in the top of the box... i had several that i used at that   
   ml> time... some even had 3D shadows... ANSI was used quite regularly,   
   ml> too...   
      
   ml> it was pretty and fairly easy to read but when folks started adding   
   ml> all kinds of colors, that took away from being able to concentrate on   
   ml> what was being written...   
      
   I remember seeing those on some BBS message areas!  It seemed to be a     
   yearning to dress-up the wonderful world of text messaging - some how.   
      
   It never appealed to me.  I too felt it as a distraction.  The flashing     
   ANSI was the worst.   
      
      
   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.   
      
   ml> it is certainly nothing to do with Policy... policy is for the network...   
   ml> not the traffic carried other than commercial and spam/unwanted traffic...   
      
   My bad.  I think I was thinking of an echopol somewhere?  Or, was it just     
   a common expectation in fidonet echo participation via the moderator/    
   rules?   
      
      
   AA>> Were you ever a member of Compuserve and the discussion areas?   
      
   ml> i used compuserve for a very little while... never really liked it...   
   ml> especially since it was on a Model 100 with only a 40 character wide   
   ml> screen and  i think 10 lines tall...   
      
   Outch.  10 lines tall?   Messaging would seem totally awkward.   
      
   Compuserve offered a robo-call program that would call up, collect the     
   messages from the areas you were interested in, send off any of your     
   messages or email, and disconnect.  Then the same program was used to     
   read/edit/compose.   
      
      
   Regards,   
     ../|ug   
      
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