There is a nice little program (freeware) called "Stripmail" which takes care of all those >> and any other text markers. You can find it here: http://www.dsoft.com.tr/stripmail/
It is very user friendly! Roger ======================================================= These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter.. I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Support-OrpheusComputing.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:18 AM Subject: Re: PCWorks: Formatting replies to our group. > Exactly, I hate those >> brackets too. When I have a long thread going with > a customer and I try and refer back to previous emails in the threads, I > can't! There are countless thousands of these annoying >>>>>> which make up > 90% of a long thread! I have them turned off in OE. I wish everyone would > turn them off in their email programs. In OE, it's under "tools", "options", > "send", then "Plain text settings" and you can uncheck the box there. > > BTW, you don't need to use Ecleaner to remove them (or any other > symbol/letter/character) if you use XP. Notepad in XP has a "replace" > function. I used to use Ecleaner when I was on 98x, and it will remove all > the <<<, but it still leaves all the white blank spaces and the screwed-up > formatting the >>> create. So does the XP Notepad. So, you still have to go > through the entire email and get the text back together the way it was > ORIGINALLY. > -Clint > > God Bless > Clint Hamilton, Owner > http://OrpheusComputing.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello again, > > Personally I enjoyed our brief exchange of ideas in formatting email. > Slightly different from the techie part of our discussions but it showed a > human quality to our being here in this group. Here's a posting that I once > sent that was never answered (note that I'm talking about the digest form, > if that makes a difference) ... see the last paragraph. > > "This question has come up before and I still can't get it right. I also > notice that in most postings, the problem persists. When I want to reply, I > click the Reply button and then remove whatever postings that are not > related to what I am replying to, and either make my point before or after > the original point. That's not my question now. Where the new point should > go really depends upon the issue, how big the original point, and how that > point is expressed. In other words, "it depends" as long as it is easy to > follow. > > What I want to know is how to avoid the scattered look in the thread with > all the brackets (one line has one word, one line has ten words, etc etc). > I'd like the thread to look like a regular paragraph when the email window > is either maximized or restored. I see some of our most knowledgeable > "screwing up" in this matter. Sometimes, to avoid the issue, I actually > reformat all the paragraphs (using eCleaner, for example, to remove the > brackets) and then identifying who is saying what. Can this straightened > out, unscattered look to the thread be done? Any thoughts on this?" ... > Harold ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
