Re: FW: GAS-L: tests download patience,

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Saturday 12 January 2002 22:17, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>     Yes, and it's just about exactly the same process for netscape.

..which netscape?  Version plus OS it is run on? 
(There are several changes between the short cut key strokes 
between "same-version" linux and wintendo netscapes.)

> Go to the address book, choose the recipient, uncheck the box for
> "prefers to receive html messages". And, if you wish, go into "edit,
> preferences, mail & newsgroups, formatting" and choose plain text.
> Also you can go into "messages" under the same menu and choose how
> you want your quoting to be set up.
>     Pretty simple stuff, not exactly rocket science, and I'm sure
> anyone who can't figure it out on their own can easily find someone
> local to help.
>    I can also give you the eudora settings if need be, at least for a
> mac, and I could probably remember windoze pegasus settings as well.

..yes, please.

> Brian Burt wrote:
> > For MS Outlook go to contacts for the particular e-mail address,
> > choose general tag and just beneath the box for e-mail address is a
> > checkbox to check if you only want to send plain text messages to
> > that recipient. Outlook will then prompt you each time you try to
> > send to that recipient with html ("Do you really want to do this or
> > is it Fido at the keyboard again?). It will not prompt when sending
> > plain text.
> >
> > Secondly you can go to the top line menu tools, then options then
> > choose tab Mail Format. The top item has a drop-down that allows
> > you to choose the default e-mail format (choose plain text).
> >
> > You should do both of these since the first option will prompt you
> > everytime you try to send in html, for instance when you reply to
> > an html message. The second option will start all your original
> > messages in plain text so if you are composing an original message
> > it will always be in plain text (you can always change the format
> > in that particular message).

..can this be done on a per-mailing-list, or per e-mail-address basis?
Using the "contacts" or address book" or whatever?  
So it is possible to use M$ style html top post as the standard and 
usenet style in the gas list?

> > Brian

..thanks Brian, this solves the M$ Outlook html posting.

..now, how do we stop the top posting and set it to quote usenet style?

..quoting usenet style, once you click "reply", the message window pops 
up ideally empty.  Then when you click the quote button, my full 
original message pops into top of the message body window, and with 
your prompt on an empty line between my full quote at the top, and your 
signature at the very bottom.  

..all quote lines should start "> ", "> > ", etc, breaking your own 
lines at 72 characters, and the quoted lines at 80 characters, to 
allow a 4 level deep quoting. 

..below is Bill Gates' placement of your quote of my message, 
how do we move it to the top, _automatically_, in M$ Outlook?

> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:arnt@c2i.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:05 AM
> > > To: gasification@crest.org
> > > Subject: Re: GAS-L: tests download patience,
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 8 January 2002 00:56, Gavin Gulliver-Goodall wrote:
> > > > I have Outlook to default to text only but occasionally have to
> > > > change it when sending a formatted message to clients and I can
> > > > forget to change it back.
> > >
> > > ..can anyone with M$ Outlook advice on how to set it up to do
> > > this automatically, ideally on a per mailing list basis?  So we
> > > keep both clients, coworkers, usenet'ers etc, and gas listers
> > > happy? (I don't have M$ Outlook, or M$ Windows.)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with kind regards from Arnt...  ;-)

  Scenarios always come in sets of three:
  best case, worst case, and just in case.


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