* Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010905 23:53]: > > Microsoft's mail clients, on the other hand, give you something like > this: > > ___cut_here___ > > > --- Original message --- From: John Galt > > Elm predates any microsoft email product... Try to quote stuff in elm, > the cursor goes to the beginning of the text. ___cut_here___ > > Note that they provide no left-margin quote marks, nor any indication > of where the original message ends, and they leave a blank line or two > at the top, implying that your reply should go there (otherwise, why > put it there?).
That's a configurable setting in Outlook Express. I use it every day... I believe it's also configurable in regular Outlook. I'll check it tomorrow. The problem is that it's not the default. Hell, the default is to use HTML vs plain-text. Hall