-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Sebastian,
@23 July 2002, 11:49 +0200 (10:49 UK time) Sebastian [S] in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: S> When I receive an email, it usually has all the word wrap at the S> correct positions, If it contains no word wrapping (line breaks) in the original text then it's just wrapping at the window boundary to help you read it. That doesn't mean it's wrapped. S> ... the mail that I "quote", i.e. first I write my stuff into the S> upper part of the mail, and then there is this whole "original S> message..." stuff. Yuck!!! Please do NOT do that here. It is an quoting practice known as "top quoting" that has been made popular by the Microsoft email software and creates hard-to-follow replies with too much retained text. What works best(*) is to do as I have done here - to quote the message text then work your way through, deleting superfluous commentary and interspersing your own comments. * I accept that there are some business circumstances where you are forced to "top quote". I urge you to adopt this conversational reply format in preference wherever possible. S> Now, the ORIGINAL message shows NO word wrap whatsoever, it's just S> loooooong lines of text - is that normal??? Yes, if that's how it started out. There are some quick templates that, when strung together can help you auto-wrap quotes. S> Then, my second problem: whenever I exit THE BAT, it takes about 3 S> minutes, because it is "compressing inbox" - I UNCHECKED this S> option though, what's going on? All messages you receive come in through the Inbox. All messages you delete (or move, or filter) from the Inbox leave a "marked" vestige of the deleted message text. Compressing will reformat the TBB file to finally exclude these deletions from the mailbase. Even if you don't do it on exit, you should do it once in a while. - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.62/Beta1 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.1.90-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE9PSu4OeQkq5KdzaARAg8bAJ92tEiO8zdljDwGSKQjPcsAJ9VfOACfZxOf lxdfy8UgR83944GBmvBg2zU= =CM9V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
