Re: [boost] Help please with Boost Discussion Policy

23 Jan 2014


      On 23 January 2014 07:41, Mateusz Łoskot  wrote:
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On 22 January 2014 23:23, Niall Douglas  wrote:
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On 22 Jan 2014 at 22:13, Fletcher, John P wrote:
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Ideally what I want to do is to switch between the styles so that only
my Boost and related work is in quoted style.
Here's what I did while I was working for my former employer and was
posting to this list using the corporate email client:
1. Tell Outlook to only ever show Plain Text email.
This works.
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2. Tell Outlook to only ever quote using indented >'s with a wrap of
74? Whatever it defaults to for wrapping was correct anyway.
This works.
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Both of those options are buried in the menus. One of them may have
been in default message options or something. On the ribbon in a
compose email box, there is a button for message options which lets
you override for that email.
Yes, on Ribbon -> File -> Options -> Mail.
But, one little-big problem remains, even in Outlook 2010:
how do you configure preamble to message quotation
so it looks properly in the standard format of "John Smith wrote:", like here:
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On 22 January 2014 23:23, Niall Douglas  wrote:
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On 22 Jan 2014 at 22:13, Fletcher, John P wrote:
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Even with your suggested configuration, Outlook always uses forward-like format:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Douglas
Sent: 22 January 2014 23:23
To: Fletcher, John P
Subject: ...
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I do use Outlook daily and I confirm using it for mailing lists is a large PITA,
so I'm compassionate to John.
What I do is, use GMail or Thunderbird, both can talk to external
servers via IMAP.
I forgot to add a little petition "Please, keep bottom-post rule
intact", obviously :)

Best regards,
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Mateusz  Łoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net