Message Formatting

[Mark Pulver]

David Halliday (Volt Computer) (08:39 AM 4/30/97 -0700) wrote:

>> ********
>> I am replying to ALL to let people know.  I cannot see anything that I
>> am doing wrong on this end.  I should be having a properly formatted
>> set of >>>'s added to the initial messages and to my replies.
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Actually, this is just the issue that people are talking about.


This is what folks are expecting:

*** start of example

>>this would be a quoted line from an original message
>
>and then Mark would reply

and then David would reply

*** end of example

There's one added ">" for each level of reply.



Now, what people are seeing from your messages is this:

*** start of example

>>this would be a quoted line from an original message
>
>and then Mark would reply
>
>and then David would reply

*** end of example

The problem is that there's no "quoting division" between the "Mark would
reply" and "David would reply" state of the message. This is what's making
the message threads hard to read.

David, if I can ask, are you manually putting in the ">" quoting? If so,
that's most of the problem.

Or, Are you using Outlook as your mail client? If so, then Outlook does
have a bug in dealing with message quoting. It's kinda fixed by the patch
that's available, (URL is below), but the patch introduces *another* bug in
this area. Read the "Known Problems" section in the README for more info.

This is the Outlook patch (currently in Beta btw):

	http://www.microsoft.com/Outlook/documents/imepread.htm


Thanks for working through this with everyone.

Mark

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