Re: How do I eliminate large spaces

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In a message dated 7/20/2005 12:58:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

writes:

1) Hit " Reply. " This will give you the original message that can be included

in your reply.

No! Highlight the point you want to discuss and THEN hit " Reply " This will

help to eliminate all of those whole posts reappearing over and over again in

the digest. Thanks!

Peg

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Re: How do I eliminate large spaces

In a message dated 7/20/2005 12:58:04 P.M. Central Daylight Time,

writes:

1) Hit " Reply. " This will give you the original message that can be included

in your reply.

No! Highlight the point you want to discuss and THEN hit " Reply " This will

help to eliminate all of those whole posts reappearing over and over again

in

the digest. Thanks!

Peg

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I do that automatically, so didn't think to include it in my message ;-)

Nenah

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> No! Highlight the point you want to discuss and THEN hit " Reply "

This will

> help to eliminate all of those whole posts reappearing over and over

again in

> the digest. Thanks!

Peg,

You can do that???? Wow, cool!

Wait, no I can't. I just tried and it didn't work. Whole new problem

or shall I threadjack?

B.

[Guest guest]

pegkem@... wrote:

> No! Highlight the point you want to discuss and THEN hit " Reply "

Not necessarily. Not all email programs work that way. The only

program I've had work like that was Pegasus. I use Thunderbird now and

have used Outlook Express, I could get neither to work like that and

I've gone over the " Options " of both and not found a way. If you or

someone else knows how to make Thunderbird work that way then by all

means, please share it.

Otherwise, you have to highlight--copy--then paste in the reply...or hit

reply, highlight and delete all unnecessary text except what you're

responding to, *including headers and footers*. This means things like

this:

> Re: How do I eliminate large spaces

There's no reason to include this information. Trim it out!!

[Guest guest]

On 7/20/05, RVT <minatoneshoba@...> wrote:

> Otherwise, you have to highlight--copy--then paste in the reply...or hit

> reply, highlight and delete all unnecessary text except what you're

> responding to, *including headers and footers*. This means things like

> this:

For what it's worth, it is incredibly annoying to read posts where the

backquoted text isn't distinguished from the new text with arrows like

above. If you have to copy and paste, the new text and backquoted

text will be indistinguishable. If your email client doesn't use a

good backquoting system, it would be better to just read the posts off

the website or get a new email client (GMail is real good, IMO).

I had a problem before because the newer versions of AOL don't have a

plain text quoting system, and their html quoting system doesn't

translate into the plain text required by lists. The solution?

I got a free GMail account that I use for lists, and use my AOL

account for personal email where it tends to be less important.

Some people use a system where the two texts are indistinguishable,

quote unnecessary text, and then put their new text at the bottom

separated by a line or something. Why not just use a client for all

the lists you're on that works well with lists?

Chris

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:19:01PM -0400, Masterjohn wrote:

>

> For what it's worth, it is incredibly annoying to read posts where the

> backquoted text isn't distinguished from the new text with arrows like

> above. If you have to copy and paste, the new text and backquoted

> text will be indistinguishable. If your email client doesn't use a

> good backquoting system, it would be better to just read the posts off

> the website or get a new email client (GMail is real good, IMO).

Indeed, and especially for me because I use a text-based reader (Mutt)

so even if HTML mailers try to use color or font to distinguish quoted

text, I don't see it in my mailer. (BTW, I use Mutt because I *prefer*

text-based readers.

And speaking of Gmail, I have several invites if anybody is interested.

Just reply off-list and I'll send one your way.

Todd

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On 7/20/05, Masterjohn <chrismasterjohn@...> wrote:

> Some people use a system where the two texts are indistinguishable,

> quote unnecessary text, and then put their new text at the bottom

> separated by a line or something. Why not just use a client for all

> the lists you're on that works well with lists?

>

> Chris

Of the web services email clients, GMail is BY FAR the best I have used.

My favorite desktop client is Becky Internet Mail. It has a good

mailing list manager and does threading of messages along with a host

of other features. Here is a review with a link to the website:

http://email.about.com/cs/winclientreviews/gr/becky.htm