On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:22:35 -0500
larry <lmwoods@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I use Netscape 7.0's news reader for my mail, and get the OM list in
> digest form. Netcape displays the digest's text with a couple of
> interesting quirks.
>
> 1) prior message quotations all show up as vertical grey bars on the
> left side of the text. Is the list software doing that, converting >,
> >>, >>>, etc. into bars?
No, that would be netscape....
>
> 2) Some text shows up as light grey. The thing that seems to trigger a
> shift from black text to grey is a line consisting of two hyphens (--)
> in the first two columns and nothing else on the line. That line, and
> everything else after it shows up in light grey until .....
....would be netscape too.
>
> 3) A quotation (defined by the vertical grey bar) shifts the text back
> to black from grey.
....would also be netscape.
As a matter of fact, all the list sw ever sends is plain text. Any fancy
formatting must be blamed on your mail client ;)
>
> Does anyone else use Netscape 7.0? Do you get the same things?
>
> ----- Larry Woods
>
> P.S. And the irony is that the grey shift has been happening quite a
> bit. Although only three people used a "--" in their signature lines
> (in a survey of Digest #3), one of them happens to be:
>
Huh? A "-- " (minus minus space) is the standardized signature seperator?
Methinks your mail client is playing games on you, mate.....
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Thomas Heide Clausen
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M.Sc in Computer Engineering
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