[TPIN] ADMIN: MIKE VAX - Model Poster - now maybe not?????

[rich at uchytil.com]

I never have any problems with any of Mike's posts, and I use Outlook,
SquirrelMail (the web mail tool my web/email hosting company provides) and
Thunderbird.

Rich Uchytil
(IT geek and trumpet player)


> In a message dated 2/6/2007 12:35:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> tony at armitstead.net writes:
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> exposes  a bug in the Mozilla Thunderbird Email client program (a popular
> client).  It thinks that the > character is part of a quoted email line
> and so  replaces it with a coloured vertical line. Unfortunately it then
> sees the  next character is another > and replaces it with 2 vertical
> lines etc.  What the display ends up with is a series of varying length
> coloured lines  which the reader has to scroll past to then see what Mike
> has actually  written (you have to scroll the window way down!).
>
> Maybe if Mike  changed the divider line to use some other character - or
> maybe letting  list members know of the problem and the fix may be worth
> considering. If  you want me to post the fix reference to the list let  me
> know.
>
> Regards Tony.
>
>
>
>
> ???????////////////########%%%%%%%%%&&&&&&&&&@@@@@@@????????
> Boy, one just can't win, can one?????????
> I have never heard of this before from anyone, on any list I have ever
> been
> on.  Do you use some special weird email form?
> Sorry if I am causing you problems by trying to make things a little
> clearer
> in my posts............
> Mike Vax
>
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