Windows Live Mail 11 - How to Reply with ">"?

[James Silverton]

You did? I use OE6 and OE-QuoteFix all of the time and I never saw that.
I only saw it for the brief time running WLM.

Isn't this supposed to be alt.windows7.general, not an XP group? I know
I've been at fault too in discussing things that are irrelevant to W7.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm "not"
(e-mail address removed)

 

[BillW50]

Isn't this supposed to be alt.windows7.general, not an XP group? I know
I've been at fault too in discussing things that are irrelevant to W7.

I was running WLM under Windows 7, James. As OE doesn't run under Windows 7.

 

[relic]

Isn't this supposed to be alt.windows7.general, not an XP group? I know
I've been at fault too in discussing things that are irrelevant to W7.

You jumped in without reading the context being discussed, didn't you jim.

 

[Char Jackson]

By now, I fear that it's the nicest thing one can say abut the OP.

I try not to get ad hominem, but eventually I *do* run out of patience


OT: My spell checker wants me to be ad homonym or ad hominy. Which one
should I choose?

Tough choice.

 

[James Silverton]

You jumped in without reading the context being discussed, didn't you jim.

Possibly, you're right but I was just wondering why OE(whatever) should
be discussed here at all as it's only of historical interest for W7. I
know I've mentioned my own experiences with OE but I feel I should not
have done so, except in so far as I like some of its features.
Currently, I'm running Thunderbird as my email and ng reader for W7.

--


James Silverton, Potomac

I'm "not"
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ed Cryer]

By now, I fear that it's the nicest thing one can say abut the OP.

I try not to get ad hominem, but eventually I *do* run out of patience


OT: My spell checker wants me to be ad homonym or ad hominy. Which one
should I choose?

That's an ad populum argument rather than an ad hominem one.

Ed

 

[Stan Brown]

The item on the list that I don't really understand is the "clear
difference between "followup" and "reply". I've been using USENET for
a good many years now, and I'm not aware of the difference. Unless
"reply" is an email reply to the OP.

That is the difference indeed. Followup goes to the newsgroup via
NNTP; reply goes to one person via email.

 

[SC Tom]

You did? I use OE6 and OE-QuoteFix all of the time and I never saw that. I
only saw it for the brief time running WLM.

I see it sometimes, not often, in OE6 without Quotefix.

 

[BillW50]

I see it sometimes, not often, in OE6 without Quotefix.

Oh that explains it! I too see it under Windows 7 using WLM without
OE-Quotefix too. Thanks!

 

[DGDevin]

"SC Tom" wrote in message

Set up Microsoft Updates to notify you when updates are ready instead of
letting it blindly install everything. Then when you get notified, look
and see what it wants to install. If Live 2011 is on the list, uncheck it,
then right-click on it and select "Hide this update."

I didn't realize it was possible to select which items would be updated in
such detail, thanks.

 

[Flint]

I have! And I am using Thunderbird as I speak. And OE is still the best
one out there for me. It searches super fast and allows me to see just
the posts that I am interested in. Can't run OE right now since MS never
released a Linux version of OE. ;-)

I'm sorry, but how anyone can say OE/WM/WML is best at *anything* for
*anyone* (themselves included) is beyond me, and defies all reason.

It just seems to fly in the face of Occam's razor.

 

[SC Tom]

"SC Tom" wrote in message




I didn't realize it was possible to select which items would be updated in
such detail, thanks.

Not a problem. You're welcome.

 

[BillW50]

In

I'm sorry, but how anyone can say OE/WM/WML is best at *anything* for
*anyone* (themselves included) is beyond me, and defies all reason.

It just seems to fly in the face of Occam's razor.

I don't believe anybody claims that OE/WM/WLM is perfect. Btw the I
never used WM and Microsoft stripped too many of the features away from
WLM that I didn't care for it. As it is what OE does right is why I like
it so much. And what others does wrong is why I don't care for them so
much. I waste way too much time with others looking for posts I am
interested in. So it is all about productivity.

I tried getting OE to run under Windows 7 without success so far. And I
focused on portable versions of OE. They run fine under XP, but so far
not with Windows 7 yet.

 

[Bill Bradshaw]

I have not tried this yet since I just downloaded the information. If
somebody tries this out please report your results.

For those who don't want to give up and WLM (and install a decent
newsreader).

<http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/wlmquote/>

--
<Bill>

Brought to you from Anchorage, Alaska.

Stan Brown wrote:

SC Tom wrote:

An add-on program that works well to help fix those is OE
QuoteFix: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

It's primarily designed for Outlook Express, but works with WLM
2009 also. I haven't tried it with WLM 2011, but it might work
with it also so you wouldn't have to change to WLM 2009. Lots of
choices

Has anybody tried QuoteFix with WLM 15 ("WLM 2011")? I believe I
read here a few weeks ago that it does not solve the problems.

I was wondering, too, if Tom had actually used OE-QuoteFix (OEQF)
with WLM. OEQF uses the unpublished API for OE to write wrappers or
extensions for OE. Microsoft considered the API too flaky and
yanked it (i.e., they unpublished it but there are probably sites
where it still exists). Although WLM evolved from OE, that doesn't
mean something written for OE's unpublished API will work
[reliably] with WLM. So I'm curious if OEQF actually works with
WLM. Tom's declaration that OEQF worked with WLM2009 makes it appear
OEQF
may be usable with WLM2011 although I have to wonder about any
extension that relies on an unpublished API that got yanked because
it was flaky.

OE-Quotefix doesn't work with WLM. It works with OE and WM (Vista)
only. Perhaps he was thinking of Outlook-Quotefix.

OE-Quotefix DOES work with WLM 2009. I use it, and it seems to work
just fine. As I said, I haven't tried it in WLM 2011. If anyone wants
to test it out on WLM 2011, it can be D/L from here:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

 

[Tom Lake]

OE-Quotefix DOES work with WLM 2009. I use it, and it seems to workThe Website is wrong about WLM not being able to bottom post, however.
It's turned off by default but it's easy to turn on.

Tom L

 

[Stan Brown]

The Website is wrong about WLM not being able to bottom post, however.
It's turned off by default but it's easy to turn on.

And even if it weren't, how hard is it to hit Ctrl-End?

However, bottom posting all by itself is about as wrong as top
posting all by itself. The key is to trim quotes to just the
specific part you're responding to.

 

[Rebecca]

And even if it weren't, how hard is it to hit Ctrl-End?

However, bottom posting all by itself is about as wrong as top
posting all by itself. The key is to trim quotes to just the
specific part you're responding to.

But you have to leave the context so people can follow "what" has preceded.
Most trimmers leave only the last message they are replying to and cut out
way too much history. Subsequent posters then repeat a lot of what has
already been posted.

 

[chrisv]

But you have to leave the context so people can follow "what" has
preceded. Most trimmers leave only the last message they are replying to
and cut out way too much history. Subsequent posters then repeat a lot of
what has already been posted.

Threads like this one that just goes on and on repeating the same thing over
and over, or get hijacked to non-related subjects need to have *everything*
trimmed.