Why do you need to copy the subject line? My Harold, what email program are you using?? LOL! I show you're using Netscape, and it like OE is the same; by default, all you do is click 'reply' and the original email and subject are all intact as was in the original email. Look at these screen shots (reduced in size and color depth). The first is what any OE or NS email user will see when clicking 'reply'. Note the subject line is already there, intact, as it was originally, and with Re: prefixed to it. (I believe in NS the signature file [if any] is placed at the extreme bottom of a thread). The original email one is replying to can be seen by scrolling down in the email a bit, which is the result in the 2nd screen shot. http://orpheuscomputing.com/images4/Clipboard01.gif http://orpheuscomputing.com/images4/Clipboard02.gif
That one of yours looks fine, so I don't know what that other post of yours meant about 'text being scattered all over the place'. :-) Top replies or bottom replies are subjective to the sender. But you should keep the email address of the sender in your replies in case a private email is ever warranted, and all will know no who wrote it. Yes, it would have made sense and be ok to change the subject line in this case, but the best thing to do is prefix the original subject with something like "new subject name - was Re: whatever", that way threads can be followed by subject in the archives. -Clint God Bless Us All Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com � ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm following carefully, Clint .. here we go: > I think we went over this before. As I recall, you are going > through some arduous process just to reply. Harold, just simply > click "reply", that's all you have to do. Then highlight and > delete the footer, and email header except for the email address > of the sender(s). You don't need to start a new message in Word, > copy and paste from emails to Word then back to an email again. > You're causing yourself all kinds of work, when all you have to > do is "reply". "Re:" Is automatically added in a reply > designating it a REply, and showing others it's a reply and not > an original post. ;-) All right, following your instructions, let's see how this looks. I click Reply, copied the original subject and placed it in the subject line *keeping* the Re there (although in this case the response has nothing to do with the original subject), removed all material above your posting (I've decided that where the reply goes, above or below the original posting, depends upon both the size and the particular context; I don't think there is a hard and fast rule to that). And then I removed all material below your posting, and typed in my response ... let's see how it looks. I hope it doesn't (that's the part I dislike most) have the text scattered all over the window; I think you know what I mean. Regarding the original subject vs this new subject and what should be in the subject line, I think I was following your instructions too literally. In this case, the Re should have been removed and a new subject typed in ... Harold B. ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
