[Lancaster] Help needed with email formating

[andy baxter]

Hi Ken,

I find that 'I don't use windows' is a good excuse for dealing with 
people in the pub who assume that just because I'm into computers I'll 
be happy to fix their windows box for them...

andy

On 07/06/12 08:48, Ken Hough wrote:
> Andy, Jonathon, Martyn,
>
> Thanks for helpful replies to my question. I've passed them on to my poor
> Windows using friend. Perhaps he'll begin to realise that open source (ie non
> Microsoft) is the way to go.
>
> Who knows? It really is amazing how hard most folks still find it to believe
> that there could possibly be a better way to go than using MS Windows  --
> even when they are shown something like a working Ubuntu system.
>
> For example, my neighbor continues to complain about how slow his XP box is
> now running and how he will have to buy a new PC. I've helped him to sort out
> the inevitable problems with this on a number of occasions, but can I get him
> to try Ubuntu (even running live)  --- not a chance! Not even if I can save
> him the cost of a new PC!
>
> I do my best, but....as everybody knows "I'm a PC" = MS Windows.
>
> Regards
>
> Ken Hough
>
> On Wednesday 06 June 2012 10:47:45 Martyn Welch wrote:
>> It's the client that inserts them, Thunderbird still does if the
>> message is setup as text rather than HTML. Are they using outlook? Get
>> forced to use that piece of junk for some work stuff.
>>
>> If so there is an option in the settings to add a prefix. Since
>> Microsoft have decided to screw around with their interface in the
>> release I now have to use, I doubt I can provide any useful
>> information beyond click on whatever button you need to click on to
>> start writing a new message and got to the options for that.
>>
>> Hope that helps a little.
>>
>> Martyn
>>
>> On 6 June 2012 09:11, andy baxter<andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> The only thing I know that might be relevant is that Thunderbird keeps
>>> the '>' characters internally (e.g. in view source), but displays them
>>> as a coloured vertical bar. I had a quick look and can't find an option
>>> to change this.
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
>>> On 06/06/12 09:00, Ken Hough wrote:
>>>> I'm sure that some of you "professional" IT people will be able to help
>>>> me with a problem that a couple of my friends have wrt with their email
>>>> clients/or email systems.
>>>>
>>>> Email clients that I have used always inserted ">" to mark all lines of
>>>> text
>>>> from included previous messages. This was/is done by default. No
>>>> problem!
>>>>
>>>> Without these additions, message threads can become very confusing to
>>>> read.
>>>>
>>>> The email clients/systems of two of my friends do not insert ">"
>>>> characters.
>>>> These guys are both Microsoft users, but this doesn't appear to be
>>>> 'normal'
>>>> Microsoft behavior.
>>>>
>>>> Where in email clients/systems does this insertion normally occur and
>>>> how can
>>>> this be enabled/disabled?
>>>>
>>>> Ken Hough
>>>> Kendal
>>>> Cumbria
>>>> UK
>>>>
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