Once, in my pre-Internet days, I got chewed out by an editor for useing Internet-style markings on my writing. What I haad been doing was setting off a persons thoughts with asterisks. I had seen this done in novels I'd been reading in my childhood, so obviously it predated the Internet, but was not in general enough use for the editor to realize I'd pcked up the habit from a different source. I liked it because quotation marks indicate speech out loud, and there seemed to be a need to make speech in one's own head be punctuated as such. Likewise, I've been very fond of the ellispses (...) to indicate pauses for as long as I've been writing. One might be able to leave out punctuation for emphasis and pauses in FanFic and have people still know that Avon would drawl a line ironically and Vila would spout off quickly, but what about original fiction? You need to give people a sense of the character's voice. Just not every line, which, I except is the actual complaint?