Re: How to remove blue line from quoted text?

[Holger Metzger]

Christopher Jahn wrote:

[blue bar]

> Except that it isn't.  Many of us despise the blue bar.
> I want PLAINTEXT, dammit.  Gimme! 

But it *is* plaintext. Even if you use the HTML composer inn Mozilla the
message will be send out in plaintext as long as there are no html
formattings in the text (unlike Outlook Express which always sends in
html when html is used). This is the way Mozilla treated HTML in
mail/news for ages.

The blue bar is a man characteristic of any f=f mail client. Eudora for
example uses the blue bar. They too use some sort of CSS stylesheet for
displaying plaintext messages. It's just a way of *displaying* the quote
characters differently, Mozilla (and Eudora) do not send out the blue
bar (which indeed would be a problem).

How plaintext is displayed is completely dependant on the OS/newsreader
someone is using. People use different fonts, different font-sizes,
different colors and so on. My "plaintext" on Linux looks very different
from your plaintext on Windows I am sure. How do you know plaintext
looks like on individual machines? Is it Courier or Courier New or even
Times, is it 10pt or 12pt, black on white or gray on black?
Displaying plaintext and sending out plaintext are different matters IMHO.

- Holger