On 26 Feb 2003 at 14:04, Robert Meier wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Skip
> >
> >Outlook you could change all those settings, but Outlook Express
> >doesn't have the options. My kludgy solution is to type my reply,
> >then cut and paste over the section we're supposed to delete. Labor
> >intensive, but it works.
>
> I don't really want to drag that thread any further but I think I am
> missing something here. My Outlook (and I just tested it with Outlook
> Express) puts the cursor at the beginning of the message after
> pressing reply. I then cut out parts of the header and then irrelevant
> stuff of the previous message including the footer. After doing that
> my cursor ends up at the end of the message where I can just start
> typing. Now even if one only cuts the footer (as required if one wants
> the message to make it to the list) the cursor ends up at the end of
> the message. So it really doesn't seem to matter if Outlook places the
> cursor at the beginning or the end of the message. As a matter of
> fact, having the cursor at the beginning makes me cutting more stuff
> out then if it had been placed at the end. Am I missing something
> here?
I guess the less than subtle approach of Outlook got lost here: it
creates one or more *empty* lines on top of the quote, thereby
strongly inviting you to start typing there.
Other mail-clients simply don't do that, even though their cursor
starts on top too....much less inviting (especially if the first line
reads 'On xx-yy-zz, X wrote in message ABC:', instead of '-original
message-').
(I believe there are also mail-clients who don't show the quote at
all, while still sending it along, probably on the bottom too,
although I believe this is limited to MIME/HTML/RTF-formats, which
don't make it to the list anyway)
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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