Jim said:
>I think that a good alternative might be to make a Setup option (maybe PUTM only, for added incentive to buy) that lets one specify if they want their messages to have auto-quotes in them or not. It could default to yes, as is the current case, but be changeable by the user.
>For those who elected to suppress auto-quotes then they could be eliminated from presentation. This might even be two separate options, one for 'regular' thread messages and one for 'Map' type displays.

I would suggest that AutoQuote be available to PUTM's only; that should reduce storage and bandwith significantly. I'm thinking that Michel would have a challenge to find a 'quoted' marker that could be consistently interpreted, especially when you offer the user(s) the opportunity to edit the quoted text.

The point of view that quotes are needed to determine context may be based on weather you are on-line with a big pipe (easy to click back to the previous message), or reading an e-mail, either off-line or on-line and you're not logged in to the UT. We've become quite spoiled with nearly instant access to anything we want to read.