xml-dev - Re: OFFTOPIC: Making Outlook mailing list friendly (was RE: Subsetting/

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>]

<Mike.Champion@SoftwareAG-USA.com> asked -
>
>
> Does anyone have any helpful hints on how to use MS
Outlook without
> seriously irritating those with whom one corresponds who
are using more
> standard (sic!) mailers?  For example, can it be
configured to NOT use
> HTML-ish markup, but rather send plain text?  Is there
some way to persuade
> it to quote with ">" the way God intended rather than by
indenting the
> quoted text?  Or should I just select everything and set
it to a reasonable
> pointsize and black before sending?
>
> (Yeah, I know ... "get a decent mailer" ... that,
unfortunately causes as
> many problems with my internal mail as Outlook causes with
my external mail.
> Sigh ... hoisted on my own petard when it comes to
"creative" conformance
> with standards, that's for sure!).
>
Outlook Express has some settings on the options pages to
send mail in either html or text MIME type.  I'm pretty sure
Outlook has the same - just keep fishing around in the
options and you will probably find it.

Same for the leading ">" - you can specify no character or
some other character too if you like.

Happy Hunting,

Tom Passin