--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Forgive me for my cluelesness. I am not a computer person > and trying my best to reply to all of you. I will try to >highlight this and see what happens. Thanks for the heads up. > The compliment about me was a needed response because I do > want to communicate on the FFL without getting attacked. Lou.
The highlighting didn't seem to work in this reply. In AOL, select Settings from the Mail menu. On the popup, at the bottom, you should see two lines that have to do with quoting text. For the first line, 'Reply to messages with', you have two options, 'Selected Text Only' and 'Original Text'. The latter will automatically include the entire text of the message you reply to in *every* reply you make. The former will include text in your replies only if you highlight it *first* in the *original* email, *before* clicking the Reply button. The second line allows you to choose how you'd like that quoted text to appear in your outgoing email. 'Blue Bar' looks pretty in AOL, but in my experience is not universal, and is often not translated into > marks by all receiving programs, including Yahoo Groups. 'Indent' takes the whole block of text and indents it one tab, which is neat unless the person you're replying to used long line lengths, and then it winds up making things look icky. 'None' means include the text, but don't indent it or mark it in any way (this makes it difficult sometimes to tell what's your new text, and what you're replying to. AOL is not the smartest cookie in the box. I keep it around because some people know me only by my old AOL address and don't seem to be able to update their machines to my newer addresses. :-) An alternative is to read FFL on its Web client at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ When you click Reply there, the sender's text is automatically included in your reply. The Web client has it pluses and its minuses. Be warned. Good luck.
