Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:13:12 -0500 (EST), Mark Weaver said: > Ok... *taking a deep breath* I don't believe it was ever in question that > Messenger "could" quote the original text, but rather the _REPLY-LEADIN_ > line that precedes the quoted text. Pine, Mutt, Elm, and Kmail are able to > insert the desired text into the leadin, while programs like Netscape > Messenger CAN NOT. Clear as mud? > But did we decide that we reply to the quote at the bottom, the top, or in between at the various points? ;-) -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 0FEF4C4F (2001-02-07)
Re: [expert] Quoting in Response to Posts
Mark Weaver wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote: > > From: Altoine B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In Netscape 4.76 you can go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | > > Messages and look to your right. Choose quoted and click on the box to > > allow automatic quoting to all messages replied and forwarded. > Ok... *taking a deep breath* I don't believe it was ever in question that > Messenger "could" quote the original text, but rather the _REPLY-LEADIN_ Then you believe wrong. From upthread: I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks? followed by: To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible with Netscape Messenger. > line that precedes the quoted text. Pine, Mutt, Elm, and Kmail are able to > insert the desired text into the leadin, while programs like Netscape > Messenger CAN NOT. Clear as mud? Right, Messenger cannot, but that had nothing to do with the original post, which was: [Collins Richey wrote (I think)] It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, Since the above is exactly the only kind of message quoting Messenger is capable of doing automatically, the fact that Messenger cannot be customized to do something else is irrelevant. -- A good name is more desirable than great riches, to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.Proverbs 21:21 NKJV Team OS/2 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:13:12 -0500 (EST), Mark Weaver said: > Ok... *taking a deep breath* I don't believe it was ever in question that > Messenger "could" quote the original text, but rather the _REPLY-LEADIN_ > line that precedes the quoted text. Pine, Mutt, Elm, and Kmail are able to > insert the desired text into the leadin, while programs like Netscape > Messenger CAN NOT. Clear as mud? > But did we decide that we reply to the quote at the bottom, the top, or inbetween at the various points? ;-) -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 0FEF4C4F (2001-02-07)
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
Ok... *taking a deep breath* I don't believe it was ever in question that Messenger "could" quote the original text, but rather the _REPLY-LEADIN_ line that precedes the quoted text. Pine, Mutt, Elm, and Kmail are able to insert the desired text into the leadin, while programs like Netscape Messenger CAN NOT. Clear as mud? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:00:41 -0600 > From: Altoine B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts > > In Netscape 4.76 you can go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | > Messages and look to your right. Choose quoted and click on the box to > allow automatic quoting to all messages replied and forwarded. > >
Re: [expert] Quoting in Response to Posts
Mark Weaver wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote: > > From: Altoine B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote: > > > > From: Marsden MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > > > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > > > > > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > > > > > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > > > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > > > > > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > > > > > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > > > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers. > > > > I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks? > > > To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible with Netscape Messenger. > > You mean known to the best of your ability. Never ever say it can't be > > done. Ask Ron Stalman and Linux Torvalds. They told them the same thing > > and look at where we are now. There are other people but we get the > > idea... > I think you knew what I meant the first time. Unless one wants to take the > time the "recode" Netscape and make some additions to the Messenger code > module it is presently not do-able in Netscape Messenger. I've reconstructed the thread in sequence, which the idiotic top posting so many do screws all up. If you look above, you can see that the original request was for people to replace "you wrote" with "[name] wrote". Later in thread, someone wrote that help was needed getting this to happen in Netscape, followed by an opine that it wasn't possible in Netscape. As you can see in the very first body line in this message is "Mark Weaver wrote:", who wrote the message I am replying to. This was put there by Netscape 2.02 for OS/2. I've yet to find any Netscape mail version that fails to put the name from the "from" line of the message replied to as the first words in a reply message. IOW, Netscape only does what the original poster wanted done, providing no other options. -- A good name is more desirable than great riches, to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.Proverbs 21:21 NKJV Team OS/2 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
I think you knew what I meant the first time. Unless one wants to take the time the "recode" Netscape and make some additions to the Messenger code module it is presently not do-able in Netscape Messenger. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:27:05 -0600 > From: Altoine B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > Marsden, > > > > To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible with Netscape Messenger. > > > > -- > > Mark > > > > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," > > "Sharing is what makes them powerful." > > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:13:03 -0800 > > > From: Marsden MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts > > > > > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > > > > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > > > > > > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > > > > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > > > > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > > > > > > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > > > > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > > > > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > > > > > > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Thanks, > > > > Collins Richey > > > > Denver area > > > > > > I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks? > > > Marsden > > You mean known to the best of your ability. Never ever say it can't be > done. Ask Ron Stalman and Linux Torvalds. They told them the same thing > and look at where we are now. There are other people but we get the > idea... > > Cheers, > -- Al > >
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
In Netscape 4.76 you can go to Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups |
Messages and look to your right. Choose quoted and click on the box to
allow automatic quoting to all messages replied and forwarded.
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Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
Rusty Carruth wrote: > Strange. I just tested this with my laptop, which runs netscape 4.73, and > it appears to actually quote as desired! (Yes, I tried a 'reply') > > I've set , under properties/Mail&newsgroups/Messages, the 'automatically > quote ...' selected, but it attribution works right even if I say > 'reply' and then click on 'quote'! > > strange. > > rc Thanks for your help, folks! Marsden
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Marsden,
>
> To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible with Netscape Messenger.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:13:03 -0800
> > From: Marsden MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
> >
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> > >
> > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore.
> > >
> > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the
> > > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather
> > > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote".
> > >
> > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration -
> > > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar.
> > > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote".
> > >
> > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Thanks,
> > > Collins Richey
> > > Denver area
> >
> > I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks?
> > Marsden
You mean known to the best of your ability. Never ever say it can't be
done. Ask Ron Stalman and Linux Torvalds. They told them the same thing
and look at where we are now. There are other people but we get the
idea...
Cheers,
-- Al
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|=.| |.-.| Maximum Time, Inc
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Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
Marsden, To the best of my knowledge this isn't possible with Netscape Messenger. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Marsden MacRae wrote: > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:13:03 -0800 > From: Marsden MacRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts > > Collins Richey wrote: > > > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers. > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Collins Richey > > Denver area > > I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks? > Marsden > >
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
Collins Richey wrote: > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers. > > -- > Thanks, > Collins Richey > Denver area I could definitely use help with Netscape. Any ideas, folks? Marsden
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
to tell you the truth I don't know that this is possible with Netscape or others. the only apps I know of that can do this are Pine, Kmail, Knode, and probably a few other Linux apps. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Vic wrote: > Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 16:03:33 -0600 > From: Vic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts > > I like to use the below response, I really like Kmails feature here. > > > On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:01 pm, so spoke Collins Richey: > > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers. > >
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
I like to use the below response, I really like Kmails feature here. On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:01 pm, so spoke Collins Richey: > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". > > I'm sure someone else can help you with Netscape mail or other mailers.
Re: [expert] Quoting in response to posts
On Saturday 03 February 2001 02:01 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > All of you who are already doing so, please ignore. > > It would be really helpful if everyone who responds to posts on the > list would setup their mailer to indicate who is being quoted, rather > that the innocuous "on ... you wrote". > > This is very easy to do in Kmail. Go to Settings - Configuration - > Composer and On Reply to Sender enter "on %D, %F wrote" or similar. > Kmail by default sets up '.on %D, you wrote". Thank you. I had checked those settings before and assumed that replying to the receiver (expert list) was like responding to all and would be quoted as such. Instead it's like responding to sender. I just fixed the problem and thanks for bringing it to my attention. I just didn't notice it because I don't read my own posts. -- Kelley Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
