andy johnson wrote:
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 02:04:35 GMT, "B McDonald" <no@spam.com> wrote:
[snip] Who in their right mind uses OE?????????? "Maggie" appears to be using
Google Groups anyway.
Chuckle! I believe I am in my right mind, and have some IT literacy, and I use
OE!
But I'm not trying to restart "news-reader wars". Here is an option for those
who are irritated (like I was) with OE, but would rather improve it than
replace it.
I use an excellent addition to Outlook Express. It sorts out lots of problems
such as mixed-up quote marks, redundant blank lines at the top, redundant
signatures, etc. It has options about initial cursor positioning & displaying
emoticon images.
It is called OE Quote Fix:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
It not only helps write much cleaner articles, it helps you read them too. I
see different levels of quoted text, and signatures, etc, in different
colours. (This is just to do with styles on the screen - it doesn't force you
to write in HTML or any extended text format). Judging by what other people
say about their different newsreaders, it makes OE into quite a good
newsreader.
Of relevance to this NG: the colours are actually simply styles in a style
sheet supplied by default with the product. It assigns a class to each level
of quoting, and you can change them. (I don't know how far it supports the
full CSS standards. I haven't bothered to investigate).
Just make sure you read the following, which caught me out at first. (It is an
MS bug that hit OE Quote Fix).
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software...tefix/faq.html
It is free (but you can donate if you choose). I've been using it sucessfully
for months, and I've recently upgraded. It is a "non-destructive" product, in
that it doesn't replace OE or other system components, it simply forms an
environment within which OE appears to behave differently. You can still call
OE directly.
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