better quoting features

I'm looking for a replacement for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (mail) and Outlook
Express (newsreader). I am forever plagued by quoting shennanigans. Lines
don't wrap very well. Things are top-posted. Things are pretty-printed and
then I have to plain text 'em, which ruins the quoting indentation.
Generally speaking it's a mess. Over the years I've gotten pretty good at
indenting and retyping. I ask myself why, o why, have I continued this way
for so long?

Surely, there is some kind of mail program that will take anyone's broken-ly
quoted crap, and automagically reformat it correctly when I hit 'reply' ?

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Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

"We live in a world of very bright people building
crappy software with total shit for tools and process."
- Ed McKenzie

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Brandon J. Van Every writes:

> I'm looking for a replacement for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (mail) and Outlook
> Express (newsreader). I am forever plagued by quoting shennanigans. Lines
> don't wrap very well. Things are top-posted. Things are pretty-printed and
> then I have to plain text 'em, which ruins the quoting indentation.
> Generally speaking it's a mess. Over the years I've gotten pretty good at
> indenting and retyping. I ask myself why, o why, have I continued this way
> for so long?
>
> Surely, there is some kind of mail program that will take anyone's broken-ly
> quoted crap, and automagically reformat it correctly when I hit 'reply' ?

Mozilla Thunderbird.

It won't help you reformat someone else's crap, but at least you won't be
adding more of your own.



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Re: better quoting features

> I'm looking for a replacement for Microsoft Outlook 2000 (mail) and
> Outlook Express (newsreader). I am forever plagued by quoting
> shennanigans. Lines don't wrap very well. Things are top-posted.
> Things are pretty-printed and then I have to plain text 'em, which
> ruins the quoting indentation.

Xnews works pretty well for me
http://xnews.newsguy.com/

Freeware, fantastic news reader.

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Jem Berkes
Software design for Windows and Linux/Unix-like systems
http://www.sysdesign.ca/

Re: better quoting features

Sam wrote:
> Mozilla Thunderbird.
>
> It won't help you reformat someone else's crap, but at least you won't be
> adding more of your own.

Thanks. I do consider requoting to be a requirement.

BTW Outlook Express blocked your pgp-signature part as an unknown / unsafe
attachment. I had to read your post via Google.

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Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com
Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

"We live in a world of very bright people building
crappy software with total shit for tools and process."
- Ed McKenzie

Re: better quoting features

Jem Berkes wrote:
>
> Xnews works pretty well for me
> http://xnews.newsguy.com/
>
> Freeware, fantastic news reader.

This is much better than Outlook Express. I'm using it now, thanks!


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Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA

"The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
- anonymous entrepreneur

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Brandon J. Van Every writes:

> Sam wrote:
>> Mozilla Thunderbird.
>>
>> It won't help you reformat someone else's crap, but at least you won't be
>> adding more of your own.
>
> Thanks. I do consider requoting to be a requirement.
>
> BTW Outlook Express blocked your pgp-signature part as an unknown / unsafe
> attachment. I had to read your post via Google.

Thanks, but bugs in Microsoft's shitware concern me just about as much as
the current weather forecast for Upper Mongolia.



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