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From: John M Ward <j...@acornusers.org>
Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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In article <bd360ceb4d.simonwillco...@home.invalid>,
   Simon Willcocks <simon.willco...@t-online.de> wrote:
> In message <4deadc30acsteve.pampl...@dsl.pipex.com>
>           Steven Pampling <steve.pampl...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> > Outlook succeeds in driving me mad every time I select text
> > from the original by highlighting it and then click reply and
> > the b****y thing quotes everything rather than just my selected
> > section.

> Neat idea, I didn't know you could do that with Messenger Pro.

> Oh, wait, I can't!

Oh!  That's worth suggesting as something to be added.  It is very
useful and convenient, and probably not difficult to implement once
the idea has been put into the programmer's mind.

> Must be a Pluto thing.  ;-)

It certainly is; but there's no reaon why it couldn't also be done
in other apps such as M-Pro.

-- 
John Ward in Medway, Kent - using RISC OS since 1987
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