Ken For business use I have a QT that creates a top post message like this one. It mimics Lookout, 'cos that's what my business contacts are used to. This keeps cut marks and any other rubbish that is sent to me.
Is that what you want to do? Moderators - I know this is a top posting that goes against the list rules, but there is a point to it!! Robin -- Robin Anson The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. -------Original Message -------- From : ken green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: replies and cutlines Date : Thursday, 13 November 2003 Time : 4:43 Marck D Pearlstone wrote: > This is how you should do it. Also, you should *not* use a cut mark in > such circumstances. It's been awhile since there was a reply to this thread, but I realized that while there was some fun discussion of posting principles, my problem was not actually solved. While I certainly appreciate TB's method of stripping everything after the cut mark, I am trying to find a way to *NOT* strip below the cut mark. If it's a few extra steps, that's OK - but I can't understand why it cannot be done somewhat easily. I am reminded of MS Word's attempt to "make things easier" by automating so many things. Sometimes I don't *WANT* that!! What I want to do is have the ability to reply to someone and keep the message history intact. So if there is more than one reply from me, TB will still keep everything - ignoring the cut marks. Marck, if I am to understand your comment "you should *not* use a cut mark" then I would have to plan ahead or make a good guess as to what kind of e-mail correspondence I'm going to have *ahead of time* - and this isn't feasible. I don't always know when I'm going to need a message history. And since TB does not allow me to directly edit messages, I cannot go back and delete or alter cut marks *before* replying. So if I don't guess right at the beginning of a conversation, I'm out of luck. Arrrgh!! This is aggravating. Currently, when I need to quote multiple responses that include cut marks, I forward the message, change the Subject line (FW to RE), delete the "forwarded message" line at the top and the "end forwarded message" line at the bottom. Then send. Not exactly elegant. Why, oh why can't I simply highlight the *ENTIRE* message (all responses, cut marks, etc.) and hit F4? Logically, this should work. If I want to use selective reply - and I select EVERYTHING - why is TB not following its own logic? The Bat's over-zealousness with deleting after cut marks is causing me problems. Again, I am reminded of Word "features" that drive me nuts like this. OK, great feature.... now how do I TURN IT OFF!?! -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
