Subj : Desired Living Document (section): Author Compliance
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Apr 18 2019 12:38 pm


 On 2019 Apr 18 17:48:36, you wrote to OZZ NIXON:

 ON>> -> That's a good question. I haven't see any BBS message editors that
 ON>> insert a -> so-called "soft CR" and FTS-1 says they (character ->
 ON>> 0x8d)
 ON>> should be ignored when importing packets, so that whole concept just
 ON>> -> seems to be an anachronism. Does anyone actuall -> send/receive
 ON>> "soft CRs"?

 WV> This non standard quoting style works terrible, when requoted... :-(

agreed but it could be handled easily by an intelligent reader... GoldED needs 
some love to handle them properly... they are actually standards and have been 
around since the '80s... IIRC, Wildcat! and PCBoard default to them... others, 
i'm sure... some are editable so the operator can set the default on their 
system which may or may not include initials... we used to use braces and ANSI 
a long time ago... some readers today apply their own coloring because some 
frown on ANSI enhanced posts ;)

)\/(ark

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