Hello Thomas,

Sunday, January 09, 2000, 2:57:57 AM, you wrote:

TF> Hallo Douglas,

TF> On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 15:01:52 -0600 GMT (09.01.2000, 05:01 +0800 GMT),
TF> Douglas Hinds wrote:

>>>> When you subscribe to things nowadays, sometimes you're given a
>>>> choice of HTML of plain text but most of the time not at all, you
>>>> get HTML. Email and HTML have to mix nowadays.

DH>> Band width hogging. Fills message with extraneous code. Bad for 3rd
DH>> world countries (inc. emailing them) where people have scarce
DH>> resources and poor ISP options.

TF> OTOH it's the trend of the day. He is saying *if* you get HTML mail
TF> (which I hate myself), you will need to see it correctly. I like what
TF> TB does: you can toggle HTML Autoview off/on, but it will *not*
TF> connect you to web page or whatever. This prevents trojans or whatever
TF> to invade your system. I wouldn't like TB's behaviour to change.

>>>> I'd like to select which account to send the email from (down arrow)
>>>> in the send mail when I'm about to send it, not have to send it from
>>>> the account I'm editing in.

AVK>>> You already have this possibility. Look into Options-->Active
AVK>>> account in the message editor window.

TF> Right.

DH>> It should be visible, in a window to change it with. The same for
DH>> multiple signatures. (A la C)

TF> In the editor window, I always have View/From Addr "on". so I see what
TF> account any particular email is sent from - and can change that easily
TF> with Options/Active Account.

>>>> Some small stuff like "change case", "wrap, unwrap", "remove quotes
>>>> in message" etc.

TF> Change case exists, somebody just reported crtl-], crtl-[, crtl-\.
TF> Check out. "Wrap" exists, play a bit with the Utilities menu in the
TF> editor window, and also try alt-j, alt-c, alt-L. I don't know what is
TF> "unwrap".

Maybe what I should have said is "Toggle word wrap", as in
Fookes - NotePro. Almost any editor has a button to toggle it.


>>>> The ability to work with sentences or paragraphs or both.

TF> Hit the period key ".", and a sentence will finish and a new one
TF> start. Hit "enter" twice, and a new paragraph will start. ;-) IOW I
TF> don't understand your question.

>>>> When I'm composing a message, tell me which mailbox I'm in, in
>>>> case the gray cells get lost.

Options-->>>>Avtive account is checked.

TF> Or: keep View/From Address "on". No need to click anything.




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Thanks, John

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