On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:45, John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:30, Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/08/01 22:11 (GMT-0800) John Andersen apparently typed:
I wonder who made it... Microsoft?
It's right there in his message headers: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 --
Yes, I know. That's why I mentioned it.
I did as much as I could to encourage him to set it right.
He was trying to help me with my question, so I didn't want to beat him about the head and shoulders for his choice of MUAs.
Recently I discovered that Outlook can prefix quoted text with e.g. "> " ( greater_than + space) 8-O. It was one of those few things I could change, so I did that at once! ;P So it seems it's just MS's quirky default setting, and maybe the OP not knowing that he could change it (if he would like to ...). OTOH, perhaps he's running Outlook Express, and perhaps OE lacks this feature... Cheers, Leen