This omission is likely required for consistent "format=3Dflowed" support;= =20 the standard requires that the quoted wrapped paragraph indent character=20 be ">". When the mail is sent, it is sent with ">". The receiving user-agent=20 knows to unwrap the paragraph and normally places a "quote bar" to the=20 left for display. Joe On 10/22/2010 10:40 PM, Oli Glaser wrote: > > Okay, I finally got sick enough of Windows Live Mail to try something > else, namely Thunderbird. > I actually quite liked it as far as MS stuff goes, but I was offered an > update a few days ago (to the whole Windows Live "Essentials" package > which tries to shove all sorts of rubbish onto your PC - search bars, > shopping aids etc etc) and decided to try it, just selecting the e-mail > update. > To cut a long story short - they have decided in their infinite wisdom > to remove the "indent with>" feature in the plain text send options.. > Why??? what harm was it doing to anyone? This inexplicable removal (with > no explanation on any forums I could find) of a feature that must be > used by most people on mailing lists was the last straw. > > So for anyone with Windows (Live) Mail (I gather there is actually a > difference between WM and WLM, what on earth was wrong with just leaving > Outlook or OE alone.. another rant right there..) you might want to > think about not updating unless you want to lose this simple and useful > feature. Maybe MS are trying to push us all into the online HTML > mail/blog world - I can't see any sane reason for deliberately removing > such a feature, maybe someone else has a better idea though.. > Well anyway, TB seems pretty good from first experiences - far better > and more intuitive than WLM. I even managed to get most of my mail > across pretty painlessly which was a big surprise given the trouble I've > had in the past with OE, WM, WML mail formats/sharing.. > Glad that's off my chest, can go back to wrestling with real EE problems > now.. none of this flimsy software rubbish.. :-) > > > > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .