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Skriven 2012-07-11 10:18:44 av Roger Nelson (1:3828/7.0)
    Kommentar till text 164 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
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On Tue Jul-10-2012 12:10, mark lewis (1:3634/12) wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 > I hate so say it, Joe, but the above was a direct quote from Richard
 > Webb... I just got on Torbjorn for this kind of quoting, have also
 > pestered Ward from time to time, so I can't keep silent here either.

 NB> Unfortunately, Bob, you can complain to us all you rwant, but you
 NB> might want to take it up with the developers of BBBS, Synchronet,
 NB> and whatever other BBS softwares don't do exactly what you want
 NB> them to do. AFAIK, they follow FTS-001 completely. And Rob
 NB> Swindell, Stephen Hurd, and Kim Heino will probably tell you just
 NB> that.

 ml> FTS-0001 has nothing to do with quoting standards... FTS-0001 is
 ml> local storage, packaging and transfer (for the most part)...

 ml> in fact, for the huge majority of time that i've been using BBS',
 ml> there was no letters but they were introduced later to help avoid
 ml> this confusion... i forget if i first saw it in BBS software,
 ml> external editors, or offline mail editors but it is a defacto
 ml> standard... much like the reflowing of the quotes instead of taking
 ml> the old and "cheap" way out by cutting the lines off and not
 ml> rewrapping/reflowing them when adding the quote indicator with or
 ml> without the initials...

 ml> however(!) there are proposed standards that do cover quote formats
 ml> and rewrapping/reflowing of quoted material... FSC-0032 (May 1989)
 ml> is one that i find... i distinctly remember another being posted in
 ml> one of the FTSC areas some years back but it was either

 ml>  a. shot down 
 ml>  b. never presented to the FTSC as a proposal
 ml>  c. my system lost or never received it

 ml> i'm unable to lay my hands on the other quoting related documents
 ml> that i've seen... i went thru a huge clean up around here and
 ml> recycled several hundred pounds of printed documentation... i wish
 ml> i hadn't done that because i've since found that some items i've
 ml> looked for since then were in there :/ 

The only time you need something is right after you throw it away or if your
archiving program deletes it instead of appending it to an archive.

 ml> but the point is that it is just good coding practise and allows to
 ml> easier track who said what... too bad no one has come up with a way
 ml> to automatically truncate unnecessary text to all those one line
 ml> bottom posted messages floating around out there :lol:

Yes, but if one were using such a program and if they really, REALLY wanted to,
they could insert the initials like Richard Webb does when replying to or from
a message from Roy Witt.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
 * Origin: NCS BBS - Houma, LA - (1:3828/7)