On 29 Nov 2003 at 21:35, Brian Clewer wrote:


> Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> >To make matters worse, your reply was put at the top out of context so it's
> >not even obvious what it was in reply to.  Are you "top posters" too dumb
> to
> >see that it makes a message harder to read, or too arrogant to care?
>
> Is there any way to get MS outlook to put in the '>' AND have it reply at
> the footer of the msg?  I use outlook, and it seems many others do here too.
> I think this is part of the problem.  Whilst I agree with Olin, putting in
> the '>' on every line manually is not ideal, so it gets left as is most of
> the time.
>
> Brian.

Outhouse Excuse used to put the quotes in for me by default, but I can't remember
where it put my cursor. I do know that the help file for OE and IE was incredibly easy
to use. Just type in a few letters of say, "quote" in the help index text box and
something about quoteing text in replies should come up.

You should be able to select which character to use. Select ">" because some
people set heir readers to display quoted text in a different color.

Don't use oddball characters like "-", it makes it hard to follow a thread.

BTW, the PICList FAQ page puts the TAG inside brackets and the colon outside.
The links on the main PICList page have the colon inside the bracket.

James Newton, our webmaster (our = subscribers ) sent me a bunch of info and it
mentioned that the colon is better put inside the brackets to protect it from e-mail
clients that might hose the TAG.

Also BTW. PegasusMail is a good replacement for OE and Netscrap mail clients.

www.pmail.gen.nz

BRs,
Mike

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