Re: how to " select & quote" ?

It seems to me that using the FL method would be better than the other.
If you decide to reply to more than one part of a message you'd have to
copy and paste each item into the reply. Using FL to quote the whole
message and using "Skipper" to cut the irrelevant parts away, there's
no need to keep going back and forth to the original message. JMHO.
Question No. 2:
 It's possible if you use the Gold Quoter by clicking on
"Templates>>Read News>>Quoter" tab. Highlight "Golded Type color
Quoter" and press the "More Info..." button. Click on the "Highlight"
tab and place a check in "Display quoting as an HTML table". Thereafter
only one quoting symbol will be displayed for each segment of the
quoted message. This method may work for other quoters as well, but I
don't use them and can't comment.Good luck.
-- 
Jack