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

[Greg Goodknight]

It may not be a bug, it may be a feature :) It happens to me, too, using 
Thunderbird v 1.0.2. It means that I *always* have to scroll down to 
read Mike's reply as the huge colored bars take up a huge amount of space.

Thunderbird is a great client available for free for windows, OS X and 
Linux, and the Vax emails are the only ones that get mucked up, from 
anyone.

-Greg

Vaxtrpts at aol.com wrote:

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>In a message dated 2/6/2007 12:35:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
>tony at armitstead.net writes:
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>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!).
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>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.
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>Regards Tony.
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>???????////////////########%%%%%%%%%&&&&&&&&&@@@@@@@????????
>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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