Hello David,

Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 6:35:41 AM, you wrote:


TF>> If you mean that the incoming message was not quoted when you hit
TF>> reply, those messages probably came in as HTML but not alternative.
TF>> Check the headers fgor content-type.

TF>> I said it before and I'll say it again: For those messages, TB fakes a
TF>> plain-text message when you set HTML auto-view "off" but refuses to
TF>> use this same method for replying, and that is annoying. Greatly
TF>> annoying, and it makes TB unusable for people like my mother. How
TF>> would I epxlain headers to her? She just wants to reply to an incoming
TF>> message!

TF>> Does anybody agree with me?

DTS> Yes.  To me this is another 'bit' which the bat falls short.  It is
DTS> all well and good to tilt at windmills and chant 'no html .. no html'
DTS> BUT it is there.  Plain and simple.  It is not going away so how can
DTS> BAT make working with it easier.  It does a good job at making a text
DTS> version.  SO why not pass that on to the reply?

BUT in follow up I must say that in just going back and testing this I
do not see this behavior any more <sigh>.  Although I *know* that this
was happening I do not know what could have corrected this.

SO to BAT .. i apologize.  Although I find some bits anoying this is
possibly the most powerful product out there.



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