Re: Fixing Outlook Express' posting behaviour [WAS Re: MS Word / Excel File Viewer API]

From: beav AT wn DoT com DoT au ("beav)
Date: 03/24/04

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    Alfie [UK] wrote:

    > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:08:52 -0500, "Howard Kaikow"
    > <kaikow@standards.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Where are the options in OE 6 that allow me to specify where the sig goes?
    >>I looked for this some time ago and did not find such an option.
    >>Where does the option live?
    >
    >
    > You can't turn off the default top posting behaviour in OE itself,
    > although you could add the signature manually at the end of your
    > message, but you can use a free add-in like OE QuoteFix
    > (http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/) to stop several
    > problems;
    >
    > stops incorrectly broken quoted lines
    > starts cursor and sig at bottom of post when replying
    > autostrip others signatures when replying
    > creates RFC compliant signatures
    > does not quote empty lines at the end of the message
    > fixes long attribution and header lines so they don't cause OE to choke
    > when replying
    >
    > Take a look, it's all automated so you just carry on typing messages
    > like you normally do and it fixes OE's broken behaviour for you :)
    >
    Thanking you very much. Been looking for something to fix that. 

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