In message , R.Wieser
writes:
John,
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OE had (has!) other benefits - IMO mainly help with avoiding top-posting.

It does ? Can't say I've ever noticed that. I always start my message

Oops, I meant OE-quotefix. OE most definitely _encourages_ top-posting,
on its own.

composing at the top, pushing the origional message down (so I can both
easily grab quotes from it and re-check the context of what I'm replying
to). Up until recently I even left the origional message, marked as such,
at the bottom as a kind of attachment (as reference material).

I think the original idea was it put the cursor at the top of the quoted
post, but for people to then step through the original, deleting bits
they weren't responding to and adding their bits below each section.
People didn't do that though. And it was especially made worse by OE
putting the (new) .sig at the top too )-:. That - among other things -
is what OE-QuoteFix fixes.

You probably don't _need_ to, but - especially since even OE _can_ do it
automatically - I can't see the _harm_ in leaving it on.

I take it you are referring to that OE Quote-fix program. I currently have
no idea if, and how well it does its job. But if that works as advertised
there is no reason to want the hard wrapping off (and there are e few other
reasons to keep it on too ...). Maybe I should just try it (I just hope
its as easily removable as installable ...).

Yes. IIRR it works in a slightly unusual way. IIRR, it generates a
separate desktop shortcut - something like OE-with-quotefix - but I
could be wrong about that, it's been a while! (I used to use its
brother, Outlook-Quotefix, at work, until they switched to a version of
O that was incompatible with it [2003 or 2007, I forget].)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


John
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