Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-06 Thread Derek Stewart
Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 19:14: Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 17:00: Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got so frustrated with it

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-06 Thread Derek Stewart
Derek Stewart wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 19:14: Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 17:00: Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-06 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Derek Stewart wrote: The blank lines were the encoding in Thunderbird... I did not configure correctly. But still I prefer the new message at the top. Me too. Cheers...Ralf ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-06 Thread Tony Firshman
Ralf Reköndt wrote, On 6/01/10 18:37: Derek Stewart wrote: The blank lines were the encoding in Thunderbird... I did not configure correctly. Ah yes - that is what I thought. you were using *exactly* the same Thunderbord version as me, but under Windoze. In-line quoting, as I did for the

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Ian Pine
- From: Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:08 PM Subject: [Ql-Users] Message formatting I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority do use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default. However some

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Ian Pine
See below. - Original Message - From: Ian Pine ilp...@tesco.net To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting In my opinion, generally, I think that as a thread builds up, old stuff should be 'pushed down' with the latest

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Ian Pine wrote, On 5/01/10 11:58: In my opinion, generally, I think that as a thread builds up, old stuff should be 'pushed down' with the latest comment going in at the top (like this message); this means that I don't have to scroll through a lengthening chunk of everything I've previously

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Ian Pine wrote, On 5/01/10 12:05: See below. - Original Message - From: Ian Pine ilp...@tesco.net To: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting In my opinion, generally, I think that as a thread builds up, old stuff should

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Tony Firshman wrote: Usnet use inline so why not here? My 2 cents: I'm fully with Tony on this one but also think that it's a battle against windmills and thus cannot be won. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Laurence Reeves
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Tony Firshman wrote: Usnet use inline so why not here? My 2 cents: I'm fully with Tony on this one but also think that it's a battle against windmills and thus cannot be won. Marcel ___ QL-Users Mailing List

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread gdgqler
On 4 Jan 2010, at 14:08, Tony Firshman wrote: I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority do use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default. I would probably agree if I knew what in-line quoting means. However some users append the Original

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Ralf Reköndt
From: gdgqler I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have said, OE puts the chars in front of the original messages,

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
gdgqler wrote, On 5/01/10 16:07: On 4 Jan 2010, at 14:08, Tony Firshman wrote: I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority do use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default. I would probably agree if I knew what in-line quoting means.

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Ralf Reköndt wrote, On 5/01/10 16:14: From: gdgqler I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have said, OE puts the chars in

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Andreas Berger
Am 05.01.2010 17:14 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: From: gdgqler I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have said, OE puts the chars

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Dilwyn Jones
I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have said, OE puts the chars in front of the original messages, then(!) format the

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Andreas Berger wrote: Am 05.01.2010 17:14 schrieb Ralf Reköndt: From: gdgqler I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Dilwyn Jones wrote: I put my reply at the end unless, as now, I am replying to specific points inside the original message. I have all set in OE, as Tony F. suggested, but sometimes the quote chars appears, sometimes not. As I have said, OE puts the chars in front of the original messages,

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got so frustrated with it (can't remember why) he uninstalled it and started using Hotmail of all things instead. That sort of kludge reminds

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 17:00: Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got so frustrated with it (can't remember why) he uninstalled it and started using Hotmail of all things

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 17:00: Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got so frustrated with it (can't remember why) he uninstalled it and started using

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 19:14: Tony Firshman wrote: Dilwyn Jones wrote, On 5/01/10 17:00: Clever, but better to use Thunderbird. Although I've never installed Thunderbird, I think it's the program my son's school suggested he install. He got so frustrated with it (can't remember why)

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-04 Thread Ralf Reköndt
Yes, it seems so, but as a user of OE, there are no alternatives. It was quite easy in the times of Maustausch, there were quite a few good programs on the Atari, which I have used, also QLFED from Andreas Rudolf on QDOS/SMSQ. They first formatted the quoted text, left space for the quotation

Re: [Ql-Users] Message formatting

2010-01-04 Thread GO BOY GO-LT
Tony wrote - This is John in Wales - John Sadler? Who, what, why is GO-BOY GO-LT? Sounds like an instruction to a Welsh sheepdog (8-)# == Why not ask *him* he should know! . tee dum, dum I said O/E (as my current client) it should have