Re: BIG DEAL
  By: HusTler to ALL on Wed Jul 24 2019 07:47 pm

 Hu> "conversation" in that area. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but when I started
 Hu> BBSing quoting wasn't available. You had to follow the conversation. If

I've been BBSing since 1992, and quoting has been around at least since then,
as far as I remember.  And I remember using message editors like IceEdit and
DCTEdit (which I based SlyEdit on), and they always supported quoting.

How did you follow the conversation without quoting?  Without quoting, I'd
think you'd have to navigate back and forth through the messages to remember
what was said and follow the conversation, and that might be difficult,
depending on the BBS's reader interface (you may have to jump back multiple
messages to see what they were replying to).  It actually seems a little hard
to imagine a message interface without quoting.

Also if you're replying to me, you can go ahead and address your messages to me
instead of "All".  Addressing your replies to "All" instead of the person
you're replying to seems a bit impersonal, and honestly a little rude..

Nightfox

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