Yes Harold, Stripmail removes the brackets, etc. but ALSO reformats the message so it is no longer scattered.
For instance, here is the bit from Clint, immediately below your message, which reads as scattered in my OE6, after I Stripmailed it: ======= "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" =========== Of course it helps if you have your "Plain Text Settings" to automatically wrap at 65. Roger ======================================================= I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart. . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 7:56 AM Subject: PCWorks: Re: Formatting replies to our group. > 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. Brackets or > no bracket, the paragraphs are not (what's the 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: 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 ============= 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 =====================================================
