In article <[log in to unmask]>, dated Thu, 16 Jul 1998
at 07:39:49, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> writes
>In Turnpike, the quoted text comes up in red, and the new material in
>black..
You can change that via a particular mailbox or newstand's preferences
if you like.
> unless you stay on the same line, and "change the quoted text" -
>which I don't.
>
Not true I am pleased to say. You can place the cursor anywhere in the
quoted text and hit carriage return to split it at that point without
any warning message. You can also highlight quoted text including only
part of a line and hit the delete key without any warning message. The
warning message only appears if you attempt to alter (excluding split
and delete) quoted text.
>Is there a big difference in the way different mailing software displays
>messages received? If so, could you tell me which mailer chews up which
>other mailer's mesages?
>
Different mail readers will have their own display characteristics but
any problems are usually created by the sender not the receiver e.g.
poor quoting technique, line lengths too long etc
Finally, to answer a point raised in another post, quoting at the
beginning of the email is an Internet convention. It shouldn't make much
difference if you selectively quote. On the rare occassions it is
advisable to quote an entire message (e.g long delay in replying,
replying to a business email where the reader may not necessarily have
written the original etc) it's easy enough to write in front of the
quoted text.
Chris
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