I don't know you well enough to know the filter doesn't exist. And I was really interested in seeing such a filter.
I agree completely with your sentiments about all the junk that precedes the content of many replies. I don't know how high my preview window is (I just counted and it's 19 lines), but when I'm very busy (such as the past two months), if I don't see new content in the preview pane, I delete. On Friday, 5 September 2003, MAU wrote: M> No, I really can't. Those who know me have probably guessed that I was M> "kinda joking". I have no such filter. It is true that I have thought M> quite a bit about it because I do not want to waste even a few seconds M> on messages that say nothing "relevant" in the first 20 lines or so. You M> know, those replies that include PGP starters, duplicate subjects and M> dates, references to who wrote the message they are replying to and at M> what time he/she did so (even in different parts of the world), and that M> quote most of the original message to perhaps just say "Me too". I'm M> sure you know which messages I mean. M> So, as I have found no way to make such a filter yet, I have a M> visual/manual work-around. I read my e-mail on the preview pane. So, I M> have set up this pane to be 20 lines high so that, when I'm browsing M> unread messages, if I see nothing "relevant" (at least the first line of M> the actual message or reply) on this pane, I just mark the message as M> read and skip it. Moderators: Top posting was a deliberate part of my response to this email. I'm very interested is seeing if it attracts a moderators' "top-posting" warning. As for trimming, I believe my reply is relevant to the whole of the original message. I've trimmed the salutation and any signature. -- Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v1.62q on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.00 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
