Re: Family Project votes

Sally Caves wrote:

> From: Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>
>>  Arda is the Quenya word for realm.

But more typically it means "the Earth".


> We can pretend that it means something
> else. :)

Or not use it at all, except as an external tag.


> On Outlook Express, why don't I get the
> "Aidan Gray said" response instead of
> "--ORIGINAL MESSAGE--" and all
> this flotsam and jetsam I have to delete
> at the head of a post I'm responding to?

Because OE is designed for situations like inside corporations,
where as a message gets forwarded and replied to, all the
previous messages in the thread are carried with it,
because almost nobody keeps proper archives of incoming and
outgoing email.


> Any way to fix that?

Sure.  Switch to Netscape or Eudora.  :-)

(I don't know of any way to change OE.)

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