Re: Effective Posting

John Dlugosz schrieb:

If you can tell me how to make Outlook insert >'s in front of a block
 of text, I'm all ears.  I can't find any kind of "quote content" or 
"paste as quotation" on the menus, or any option to do anything with 
the original message other than to put it at the end with ---original
 message--- in front of it.  This was the best I could figure out 
that was useful, and gets replies threaded (mostly) properly.

Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options, set "When replying to
a message" to "Prefix each line of the original message".

While you're at it, how do you tell Outlook to always start a message
 in "plain text" (not HTML) based on the target address, like 
Thunderbird does?

Tools -> Options -> Mail Format, set "Compose in this message format" to
"Plain Text".

Alternatively, tell me how to reply using the Gmane web viewer, or 
point me to another web-based viewer that shows current content.

No idea.  But why not use a real mail user agent?

Or, the mailing list server could translate Outlook's visible 
interspersed quotes (the original message is blue, new typing is 
black) with a uniform quote style that is specified in each 
subscriber's preference settings.

Avoiding garbage is better than converting it to something useful.  If
someone wrote an Outlook mail sanitizer, I'd probably use it at work,
too, though.

Could be worse.  Ever use Lotus Notes?

Yes, long ago, and thankfully I don't remember much about it.  There's
always a way to do worse -- that's small comfort.

René