My high-school best friend and I email each other quite a bit, and carry on long-winded debates about this and that. Once we started doing it electronically rather than by hand-written manuscripts, we had quickly to develop some convention for tracking who said what and in which iteration, and that's how we do it, though I thought we invented it; I don't remember seeing it before. Looks like this:
R1> Blah blah blah. T2> No, it's really bloh and bloh bloh. R3> You need to pay more attention; blah it is, and always blah. There's slightly more to it than that; the latest entries are colored red and revert to black after that, and we use a lower-case initial when we're putting words in the other's mouth, but that's about it. And yes, I steal taglines, though only the best ones. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I am CopyCat of Borg. Your tagline will be assimilated. */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:55 Tagline? There's a term I haven't seen in decades. I fondly remember offline readers that could steal taglines and randomly select from your tagline files. Does anybody else recall the "initials >" style of quoting? ________________________________________ From: [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2023 10:12 AM Now I'm wondering what it might come up with if asked to produce pithy one-liners, the sort I collect for my tagline file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
