Guest guest Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 Hi , The odd characters you see sometimes in posts (e.g. Â) are typically caused by conflicts between rich text and plain text characters as interpreted by different email clients, writing software, etc. This has nothing to do with the list per se and there is little to be done about it. As for the angle brackets (i.e. >), these are a commonly used convention for automatically representing quoted excerpts in threaded conversations. Yahoo Groups, which provides the platform for this and other groups, uses this convention by default, at least in the web editor that I am currently composing in. It is also convenient for persons using plain text email clients. - Randy > > Hi , Kate, Helena and Soozy > Thank you for your thoughts and for replying. > I know for me right now, I am feeling a little overwhelmed with my need to reply back, as so many thoughts come through my mind about things to write.So I will try to do do this in a methodical approach as best as possible for me. > , > Yes, I understand and can agree with you that I too find the format of this yahoo list not the easiest to read. I only joined yahoo so as to join a few groups hosted by yahoo, as my normal everyday email is on Gmail. I have just this afternoon looked at various setting for yahoo and have successfully been able to have my Mac Mail application bring in the posts via the IMAP protocol rather that reading and replying via the web site. I find the little box that they provide you to type in far too small and I just feel restricted and limited by their website method. The very things you mention about what bothers you has been true fro me as well, and has been a part of why it has taken me quite some time to make any post at all. If you were to look at how other forums operate, in terms of layout appearance and how easy it is to navigate, I only wish this ACT forum could have the same, really. > > So, you write that the '' is used to indicate quoted text from an email in replying or forwarding, with an extra '' added each time there is an additional reply. What you can do is, to do exactly what you have done, which can be time consuming if you are doing things web based. If you use an email client or application on your computer, you can simply highlight the text and select 'Reduce Indentation' or what ever it may be called in your application. > > Also, I have found myself getting frustrated with how long the length of each reply gets when there is an additional reply to a post, each time it is repeated from the beginning. So, to get around this I often delete all but the relevant parts of the topic. > > As for the strange symbols we are seeing, such as 'Â', I noticed that the yahoohelp states that people using the dreaded Microsoft Windows operating system together with a mail application such as Outlook will give this problem. At first I thought is was because people from other countries that use different keyboard encodings was the cause, though apparently this may not be the cause. > Maybe we can confirm this by asking Helena if she is using Microsoft Windows and a mail application such as Outlook? > My apologies for going off the original topic here, I hope people will understand. > Ok, I hope this post will work and appear correctly formatted how I intend without any problems, fingers crossed. > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 I was going to write as much myself but wasn't able to express what I wanted to so clearly, Randy. I would like to suggest though that it might be helpful for many if people could delete unnecessary text when responding and not just click reply allowing a whole string of previous posts to be reposted. Easily done I know! mentioned International Disabled Day and so it might be a good moment to remember those blind people relying on screen readers who probably would have great difficulty reading some posts here. There may not be any blind contributors but who knows! I'm partially deaf and am very aware how distracting background noise is. I imagine having a screen reader read out >>>>>> must be enfuriating. S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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