When I reply to a newsgroup message in OE, sometimes the
program will quote the original message using " " at the
beginning of each line, and sometimes not. For example:

This line is quoted.

This line is not.

The behavior is message specific. For most messages, OE
produces the quote marks. For others it will not, no matter what
I do.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and know what causes it
or how to overcome it? I would like to get the quoting every
time or, better still, to be able to turn it on or off as I choose
rather than as the program chooses.

Thanks.

Alan

If the OP is using Quoted Printable in the Plain Text format, (Tools |
Options | Send | News | Plain Text Settings), then the carats will not show
when you reply. Most post using MIME / None and you will see the carats when
replying to these posts.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Alan Meyer" wrote in message
. ..
When I reply to a newsgroup message in OE, sometimes the
program will quote the original message using " " at the
beginning of each line, and sometimes not. For example:

This line is quoted.

This line is not.

The behavior is message specific. For most messages, OE
produces the quote marks. For others it will not, no matter what
I do.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and know what causes it
or how to overcome it? I would like to get the quoting every
time or, better still, to be able to turn it on or off as I choose
rather than as the program chooses.

Thanks.

Alan

Thank you Bruce. That was an amazing piece of arcana you were
able to dredge up for me.

It's unfortunate that OE doesn't allow the user to dictate the
format of all messages. Ideally, I'd like every message
I post to a newsgroup to be pure plain text, no matter what
I may be responding to. It's sometimes difficult to coerce
OE into doing that. I wind up extracting the text, pasting
it into a text editor, doing what I want with it, then clearing
the reply and pasting in my own manipulated reply.

It works, but it's clumsy.

Thanks again.

Alan

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
If the OP is using Quoted Printable in the Plain Text format, (Tools | Options | Send |
News | Plain Text Settings), then the carats will not show when you reply. Most post
using MIME / None and you will see the carats when replying to these posts.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"Alan Meyer" wrote in message
. ..
When I reply to a newsgroup message in OE, sometimes the
program will quote the original message using " " at the
beginning of each line, and sometimes not. For example:

This line is quoted.

This line is not.

The behavior is message specific. For most messages, OE
produces the quote marks. For others it will not, no matter what
I do.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and know what causes it
or how to overcome it? I would like to get the quoting every
time or, better still, to be able to turn it on or off as I choose
rather than as the program chooses.

Thanks.

Alan

"Alan Meyer" escribió en el mensaje
. ..
When I reply to a newsgroup message in OE, sometimes the
program will quote the original message using " " at the
beginning of each line, and sometimes not. For example:

This line is quoted.

This line is not.

The behavior is message specific. For most messages, OE
produces the quote marks. For others it will not, no matter what
I do.

Has anyone else seen this behavior and know what causes it
or how to overcome it? I would like to get the quoting every
time or, better still, to be able to turn it on or off as I choose
rather than as the program chooses.

Thanks.

Alan