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PID: OpenXP/5.0.43 (Win32)
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Hello mark!

** On Sunday 03.05.20 - 20:44, mark lewis wrote to August Abolins:

 ml> .... i'm reading a message; i hit the reply button; i select
 ml> the lines i want to quote, hit enter, and then i'm in my editor to write
 ml> my reply... i'm doing this all online to my BBS... why would i want to do
 ml> all that copying and pasting back and forth?

 ml> if i'm reading using my point setup with golded, same thing... why do all
 ml> that when i have the tools at hand already? ;)


I hear ya.  I'd love to see similar built-in capability when replying to  
messages when using Thunderbird.   Fidolook for OutlookExpress was  
amazing.

OpenXP does a pretty good job with messages that arrive via true FTN.  But  
there are issues with some othernets that I am curently exploring that  
arrive via nntp using OpenXP.  For those, it looks like Thunderbird will  
be the only way to go; I would only use the Reformator/Quoter to retain a  
Fidostyle quote for a larger section of the message.

But, with the threading capabilities these days, I am considering not  
quoting much at all.  It is just as easy to hit the necessary "control" to  
navigate through a thread:

ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
º  When reference links available                        º
º  (Maus, Fido):                                         º
º                                                        º
º  +       Go to the next message in the                 º
º          reference link (if any)                       º
º                                                        º
º  -       Go to the original message in the reference   º
º          link (as long as it's still in the            º
º          messagebase).                                 º
º                                                        º
º  Cursor-Left and Cursor-Right Toggles between          º
º          messages in the same reference link.          º



The more systems would be conscious of using msgids/threading, then  
quoting wouldn't be needed much at all.



  ../|ug

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