[Lancaster] Help needed with email formating

[andy baxter]

I would be up for meeting next month.

Maybe one of us could set up an event on doodle.com so we can work out a 
suitable date? I can do this later today but not right now as I'm going out.

andy :-)

On 10/06/12 09:38, Wayne Ward wrote:
> Your right ken its hard to get them to move onto something better specially when they only usually want the same this
> web - music - email and photos and maybe messenger!
> its all there plus more its just the change and i think people cant understand how it can be so much better!
>
> its been a while since no meeting maybe call one up for next month at the beginning of the month
>
> Regards
> Wayne :)
>
> On 7 Jun 2012, at 22:25, Ken Hough wrote:
>
>> 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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