Speaking of mail etc

[kclark at CetaceanNetworks.com (Kevin D. Clark)]

"Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net> writes:

> Neither Notes nor cc:mail nor Outlook provide for the net's customary "left
> indent quoting" standard, 

Various people on this list have made me aware of these:

        http://www.lemis.com/email/fixing-outlook.html
        http://www.slipstick.com/mail1/olinet.htm

> and I think that corporate users would be
> uncomfortable seeing responses mixed in with original text anyway - Notes
> and cc:Mail are supposed to have the "look and feel" of paper memos, which
> means separate sections for each correspondent's input.

Bleh.

> However, when corporate email clients met netaware users, the result, of
> course, was the Pollack painting we all know and love, with replies
> italicized or a different color or whatever. I used to cut the text out of
> incoming Notes documents, paste it into Word, and run a macro command that
> replaced every CR/LF with a CR/LF/> combination, so that I could reply in
> internet style. There just wasn't any other way, and it's little wonder that
> most users resorted to easier alternatives.

Attached is a script that I use to easily transmogrify Outlook quoting
into more workable quoting.  I hope you and others find it to be
useful.   (note:  this is quick hack)

Regards,

--kevin
-- 
"There!  Now we're both transmogrified!  We're even!" -- Calvin


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