[Lancaster] Help needed with email formating

[Ken Hough]

Andy,

But it's sad that they don't even realise how much they are suffering  --  and 
unnecessarily so.  :-)


Ken


On Thursday 07 June 2012 08:59:18 andy baxter wrote:
> 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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