Problem: Emailing back and forth with a friend - she's using Outlook,
I'm using Eudora. After trying to troubleshoot an issue with
RealAudio, these odd thin vertical lines keep appearing on either side
of the text in the thread. The more replies there are, the more lines
are added to each email.
How can these be shut off? (I already asked her to try different
permutations - Plain Text, Rich Text, HTML)
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Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
18 Jan 2004 16:07 PST
pcventures...
You note that these lines appear on "either side of the text
in the thread". If that means "both", that's a bit unusual.
Sending mail back and forth in HTML format can result in a
series of lines on the left-hand margin, which is the HTML
equivalent of quoting the previous post. If I receive one
of those, when I click on 'reply', I can then go to the
menu of the email in OE and select 'Format' -> 'Plain text',
and the bars on the left disappear.
If plain text posts are quoted, OE offers the choice of
having the cited lines begin with ':' or '>', so they
will look like this:
: cited line
or this:
> cited line
I'm not familiar with Eudora, but perhaps it has
an option for quoting previous posts that uses a
line, like this?:
| cited line
| cited line
Let me know where this takes you.
sublime1-ga
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Clarification of Question by
pcventures-ga
on
19 Jan 2004 05:23 PST
Good tries, but still a little bit off track. These are long vertical
lines that are appearing in the email, and get longer as the thread
does.
Left hand side only.
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Request for Question Clarification by
missy-ga
on
19 Jan 2004 08:26 PST
Hi there,
I use Eudora 6, and what you're describing does indeed sound like the
notations for quoted (cited) text.
Here, let me show you with a bit of what was an extended exchange in my own e-mail:
Moospake:
| La Annie wrote:
| I'd make a remark about penguins and pokiness here, but then it would look
| like I'm razzing Chris. Dammit. Remind me to whap him for getting in the
| way of a good razzing!
Will do! Can't have that!
|| I know you're probably really busy thinking about July 4th for you right now
|| (you're having the researchers, right?)...
Note the attribuiton Moospake - that would be "Missy wrote" - which
means that everything with a single line was what I wrote in my last
reply. Everything with two lines is what my friend Annie wrote prior
to that, and everything without a line is her (then) current missive.
(Yes, I know the lines are unbroken in Eudora, but there's no way to
reproduce that out here on Google Answers.)
You seem pretty convinced that it's not quote notation though, so it
might be helpful if you could post a screenshot so we can see for
ourselves what's going on, and try to troubleshoot from there.
--Missy
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