Re: BBC does it again



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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:53:09 GMT: "John Atkinson"
<johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

I'm not sure in this case, but there is a known inability of
Outlook's
to parse quotings properly in MIME quoted-printable messages.

Yeah, that makes sense, I suppose. When I first noticed this, a
long time ago, I tried changing my settings in various ways to
sort this, without success.

There seems to be a auxiliary program out there somewhere called
"Quotefix".

Yeah, I just downloaded it. Looks good, according to the screed,
but I can only get it to talk to my email server, not my news
server.

Ouch! That's not much help.
I might have to persevere with my semi-automatic AllChars macro.
pjk

I just downloaded the version for Outlook Express (not the Outlook
version) and it handles the Usenet news okay.

Arrrrh! Dumb of me. Yes, this one, OEQuoteFix, looks like it's
working just fine. No hassles at all.

Beaut!

I didn't like the default OEQuoteFix's sequence of colours it uses to
represent various levels of indentation. I editted the cascading style
sheets definition file "styles.css" to change their order as well as
tweek their hues but after several tries and repeatedly testing the
look of it with "styles_preview.html" I came to realize that I didn't
really like the pastel colours no matter what order they come in.
I think they are unnecessarily distracting.

Consequently, I reduced the number of styles down to one (black)
and have the OEQF do just the stuff I wanted it to do in the first
place, that is inserting the extra indentation level when it's
missing.

All that's needed to do that is to change the digit '7' in the first
line of styles.css from to '1'.

I think I agree. And it automatically has just "XXXX writes:" on the
first line without all the usual extraneous crap, which I like.

Yeap, I like that too, as well as graphic smiley icons and especially
the superfluous spaces being sucked up from multiple '> ' indentations.

I am not sure though, if the shrunk header lines (with thread details
removed) don't interfere with thread nested header displays people
sometimes use in some news readers.
Let's see I anybody complains about that.

pjk

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