John Dlugosz schrieb: > If you can tell me how to make Outlook insert >'s in front of a block > of text, I'm all ears. I can't find any kind of "quote content" or > "paste as quotation" on the menus, or any option to do anything with > the original message other than to put it at the end with ---original > message--- in front of it. This was the best I could figure out > that was useful, and gets replies threaded (mostly) properly. Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options, set "When replying to a message" to "Prefix each line of the original message". > While you're at it, how do you tell Outlook to always start a message > in "plain text" (not HTML) based on the target address, like > Thunderbird does? Tools -> Options -> Mail Format, set "Compose in this message format" to "Plain Text". > Alternatively, tell me how to reply using the Gmane web viewer, or > point me to another web-based viewer that shows current content. No idea. But why not use a real mail user agent? > Or, the mailing list server could translate Outlook's visible > interspersed quotes (the original message is blue, new typing is > black) with a uniform quote style that is specified in each > subscriber's preference settings. Avoiding garbage is better than converting it to something useful. If someone wrote an Outlook mail sanitizer, I'd probably use it at work, too, though. > Could be worse. Ever use Lotus Notes? Yes, long ago, and thankfully I don't remember much about it. There's always a way to do worse -- that's small comfort. René -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html