Whenever I reply to an email message, I like to put my reply in context. I'm an "interleaved" bigot (I want people reading my public replies to know exactly what I'm replying to, and to know to whom I'm replying in mailing list conversations).
I have frequent correspondence with some people on corporate email systems who use Outlook for their email client and who "pretty up" their outgoing HTML mail messages with backgrounds, headers, etc. If I try to use Entourage's automatic tool for creating attribution (which pastes in the name of the sender, the date/time the sender composed the message, and the text I've chosen to respond to), what shows up at the beginning of my reply is... NOTHING!!!!! The only way I can get any attribution into the reply is by manually typing "firstname lastname said asldfkjasdlf" (or something similar) into my own message. Usually I can at least copy and paste the text to which I'm responding from the incoming message into my reply, but sometimes I can't even do that. It's as though the incoming text isn't REALLY text, but actually a portion of an image, and consequently not selectable. I know that the composers of these messages are using Outlook. I know they're on corporate email systems (they don't really even HAVE Outlook on their machines; the interface is "pushed" to them by their servers). Are there things I can do to help me talk to them in email? Are there things I can do to help me help THEM not create this situation? Is it possible that their email systems are set up intentionally in some way so that text they compose CAN'T be quoted by their recipients? Jim Robertson -- -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
