[H-GEN] Mail program

[Harry Phillips]

Greg Black wrote:
> As you can see, under each of the two quoted blocks, there's an
> extra line with just a ">" character.  That's what i was talking
> about.  My use of the term "trillions of extra [...] lines" was
> mild hyperbole and covered all the messages with this problem
> and all the copies that have been sent to people by all the
> people in the world who do this.  This is not a huge thing, but
> it's nicer if you don't do it.

Oh so the trillions has been reduced to a single line, I really thought 
it was like 10 or 20 lines, phewww.

>>That's all I do and that is all I see when using Thunderbird. I am not 
>>really good at reading headers, which mail program do you use?
> 
> The mail program I use is of little interest, other than that
> it's one that presents messages as they are, not re-formatted in
> some way that it thinks might be "nice".

Well since I thought the problem was bigger then it was I wanted to try 
out both programs myself and see these trillions of lines.

> However, I don't hide
> it and it's easy to see in the headers.  Here is the relevant
> header from your message, followed by one of mine:
> 
>     User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040528)
>     User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i; gjb-muttsend.sh 1.5 2003-10-01

I wasn't accusing you of hiding it, I just didn't know what to look for. 
When I first looked I thought it was exim, after a little Googling I 
knew it wasn't. Thanks, now I know to look for the "User-Agent" line, 
you learn something new everyday.

> Since you didn't do it on the latest message, I really think
> it's you rather than the software; it's more a matter of going
> back and *looking* at your messages before sending them -- and
> of editing them if you see that they're messy.  In general, busy
> people have a tendency to just skip messy messages, so it pays
> to take the time to present things well.

Is that better? I have deleted all of the > when there is no text 
following and I only have one single line between the quoted text and 
mine. After all these years I did not know those little things were so 
bothersome.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips