<div>Anna Replies:)</div> <div>Thanks, I will make sure my future posts make better sense.<BR>Sorry for any inconvenience.</div> <div>Anna</div> <div> </div> <div><BR><B><I>Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Anna says she's just reading the archives, and replying from there.<BR>Thanks for explaining in more detail how she might fix that.<BR><BR>Lee<BR><BR>BillK wrote<BR><BR>> According to the mail header, Anna is using the Yahoo webmail client.<BR>> <BR>> I think the problem is that Anna is replying in HTML and is trying to<BR>> hack the message about to get round this.<BR>> <BR>> Anna,<BR>> The Extropy-chat and wta-talk lists prefer plain text messages.<BR>> Go to General Preferences, and click the box to 'Compose messages in<BR>> plain text'.<BR>> Also click the box for 'Include full original message when
replying'.<BR>> <BR>> Now when you click on 'Reply' you will get the Compose screen with the<BR>> complete previous message indented as standard.<BR>> <BR>> Two more points. :)<BR>> <BR>> It is generally regarded as bad practice to quote the full message, so<BR>> you should highlight and delete the less important parts of the<BR>> message you are replying to.<BR>> <BR>> Yahoo webmail seems to default to top posting for your reply, so you<BR>> should skip down and type your reply at the end of the message.<BR>> <BR>> (That's why you just deleted some of the original message. Otherwise<BR>> every reader would have to skip down the whole previous message to get<BR>> to your reply at the end). :)<BR>> <BR>> You can also interleave your comments paragraph by paragraph, if you<BR>> want to split a very long reply up.<BR>> <BR>> Best wishes, BillK<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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