On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:12:36 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Ken Blake
writes:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:45:12 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes:
On 11/12/2018 4:24 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Big Al
writes:
On 11/12/18 4:39 PM, freebody wrote:
How do I tell if a mail subfolder is local or on the provider's
serverÂ* without going to the provider.
Â*For
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*hotmail.com
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*gmail.com

Interesting question, maybe folders under "local folders" are your
locally created folders and anything else is from gmail or hotmail?


What are you using to access the email:

What is the meaning of the letter o in front of the 3 next sentences?
Just curious.

o the webmail interface (i. e. you're using a browser)?
o a mail client, collecting by POP?
o a mail client, collecting by IMAP?

Rene

?
A common way of doing bullet points in text-only situations. (I could
have used 1. 2. 3., I suppose. Or ".", but IMO a lower-case O looks
better.)


I knew what you meant by the o, but I don't like the way it looks. I

It's not ideal: it probably depends on the font being used. In the one I
generally use (some variety of Courier!), I think it looks reasonable.

think it's likely that some people would get confused by it, as Rene
did. I think 1. 2. 3. or "." would look better. And so would ° or · or
*

Except that of those, only * is plain text.


No, they are all plain text. The ° and · are not characters on the
keyboard, but they can be easily gotten with alt-248 and alt-249.


In most cases these days,
the others will indeed pass through unchanged, but a small number of
people will see them as different characters, or even a string like =A9
or something like that.