Beta release 4.61.1

Matt Hayes dominian at slackadelic.com
Tue Jun 5 19:08:46 IST 2007


Jules,

You think you can give links to those plugins?

-Matt

Julian Field wrote:
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> 
> Rick Cooper wrote:
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
>>> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
>>> Of Gerard Seibert
>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 1:23 PM
>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>> Subject: Re: Beta release 4.61.1
>>>
>>> On Tuesday June 05, 2007 at 10:37:43 (AM) Rick Cooper wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Go through the list and you will see I converted this (I'm 
>>>>       
>>> not the original
>>>     
>>>> sender) either two or three times but Julian seems to use 
>>>>       
>>> the original
>>>     
>>>> everytime he replies ;-)
>>>>
>>>> What really sucks is most of those mails look like standard 
>>>>       
>>> Outlook Express
>>>     
>>>> stationary so they could just check off the always send as 
>>>>       
>>> plain text on
>>>     
>>>> their list address and it would never happen |-(
>>>>       
>>> I appreciate your taking the time to convert messages to plain text,
>>> although my MUA, claws-mail, does that for me. I was wondering though
>>> if you might consider losing the 'top-posting' concept however. It
>>> would make following a thread so mush easier, especially when I need
>>> to {snip} extraneous data from the post.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I don't have a top posting concept, I *almost* never do and I snip [...]
>> instead. Only time I do is if there is a big chuck of stuff I would remove
>> nearly all of and I am in a big hurry. Sorry about that one today. What bugs
>> me is when someone makes a one line remark on 100K of conversation and I
>> have to dig through the >>>>>> a couple times to find the answer.
>>   
> I found an extension for Thunderbird that "folds" quoted material. So I 
> no longer have to scroll right to the bottom of every message (more 
> mouse miles) to see the comment that's been added. I also use another 
> one that draws a left and top boundary around each different quoting 
> level, and changes the colours of the quoted material. So deeper quoting 
> levels have gradually darker background shades of grey. These 2 combined 
> make it much easier to read this list.
> 
> Jules
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