That just depends on how you have OE setup ("Read" settings and how wide your
preview window is), and, on how the sender is typing (whether or not they hit
the [enter] key and their line wrap settings.You can drag the vertical separator bar which separates the preview/read email from the folder list, left or right to change how most text is displayed in emails. Too small of an area to the right and text lines will be of different length. (Those >> marks may not bother you, but it's hell on those trying to read a thread). One knows which is old and which is new by simply looking at the order of the emails. Someone manually adding > to respond DIRECTLY below to a SPECIFIC quote is OK. Like this: >(I'll try that out although have no objections to brackets; they >let you know what's new and what's old) ...and any comments here. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using Windows 98, IE 6 and OE 6 ... I'm surprised you guys are missing the question. I have no trouble removing brackets whether I use my eCleaner or Roger's "Stripmail" (I'm sure they are all good). And thank you, Clint, for the OE>Tools>Options>Send>Mail Settings Format>Plain Text Settings>and uncheck the "Indent the original text with" box (I'll try that out although I have no objections to brackets; they let you know what's new and what's old) ... but that's not the gist of the question. It's the scattered look of the thread paragraphs that concern me. Brackes or no bracket, the paragraphs are not (what's the word? "word wrapped"?) ... one line has twelve words on it, the next line might have one word on it. How can we make the thread paragraphs look like a paragraph should look? Is it possible that I'm the only one seeing scattered lines in thread paragraphs? ... Harold > From: "Roger" > 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/ > > Roger > > From: Clint > > 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 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Harold B" > > 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 =====================================================
