Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:45:17 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 01:29 PM 4/22/05 EDT, MarkLFischer at aol.com wrote:

>PS. My email client has all manner of wonderful features, all of which
choke
>Keith's filters.  If I turn them off to use text-only, the software
>basically stomps out to the yard to eat bugs and makes me format
everything by  hand.

Why do you use it then?  There are generally several mail programs
available for any OS, and all major, and not so major, OSs have at least
one that does, or can be made to, quote properly.  Some are even free.  If
all else fails, use a decent programmable text editor and cut and paste
between it and your mailer...assuming it doesn't have among its wonderful
features the ability to interface with an external editor for message
manipulation like the one on OpenVMS does.

>Before anyone makes the really obvious suggestion, I'm in too many client
>address books to give up this address.

Why would you have to give up an address to change mail clients?  Does your
ISP have some sort of contractual relationship with you that says you have
to use the one you use?

I stick with this older version of Eudora mostly for two reasons: I have
lots of saved messages that I refer to on occasion that would be a PITA to
export to files, and it's old enough, and featureless enough, not to be
subject to all of the various forms of e-mail virus, privacy violation and
other forms of maliciousness that are floating around these days.

-- Mike B.
--
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.