Goose ... I've have used several other BBS software, and know exactly what you are talking about. But, it just doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother you.
And who really cares? If someone wants to be lazy and do it their way ... fine. I don't see using a couple of br's between paragraphs as being all that difficult, or time consuming. The fancy stuff is just for fun, and it excercises the brain.
And believe me ... I have taught everyone here a great deal in the previous posts. Have you ever thought that the tiny amount of users who use paragraph breaks, just might be the very same ones who wanted me to email it to them?
Now that the entire population (at least the ones who read this thread) have this information ... let's see what happens. I don't suspect everyone will get into a frenzy of the fancy stuff ... but the simple paragraph breaks are notall that hard to do ...