Subj : trying to get the hang of "oxp" To : mark lewis From : August Abolins Date : Thu Apr 04 2019 20:06:00 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 --- OpenXP 5.0.36 * Origin: /|ug's Point, ONT, CANADA (2:221/1.58) .