Re: Humble Request + advice on quoting

At 08:05 AM 5/29/98 +0100, Abe Brown wrote:
>Now because you did not quote the relevant part of the original
>message I have almost no idea what you are talking about without
>looking back through the messages form the list, for me that is
>possible because I almost never delete any messages but some people
>make a habit of deleting messages daily and so would not be able to
>look at the original message.
>
>If your mailer program does not let you quote the original message the
>there are several things that you can do A) get a better program, this
>is the best option there are several free mailers available on the net
>(sorry I don't know the URL's) B) copy and paste the parts of the
>original message that you want  to comment on into your message and
>either indent them manually with > or another symbol or put above and
>below the quoted section ++begin quote++ and ++end quote++ or similar.

From his address, he's on AOL. The best way for people on AOL to reply with
decent quotations is to goto the Preferences menu and make sure "Use AOL
style quotations" is unchecked. Then just highlight the text you want to
quote with the mouse and hit reply. The AOL mailer puts in legible quoted
text for easy reading.


Toby Mekelburg
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