Re: Adding replies to bottom of message

In news:%23StvK16fFHA.3304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> typed:

> Ken Blake wrote:
>> In news:eEOlcf0fFHA.3912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>> Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> typed:
>>
>>> I use Outlook Express 6 for my email. I've been reprimanded
>>> in
>>> several newslists because OE puts the Replies and Signature
>>> at
>>> the
>>> top of the reply instead of the bottom as newslist protocol
>>> apparently requires.
>>
>>
>> Actually, no, it doesn't. It puts the *cursor* at the top of
>> the
>> reply. But you can still choose where *you* want the reply to
>> be.
>>
>> Moving the cursor is very easy. Outlook Express put the cursor
>> at
>> the top of this reply, but I simply clicked to put the cursor
>> where *I* wanted the reply to be.
>>
>> I believe the best way to reply is to reply after the text you
>> are replying to, and that's not necessarily the very bottom of
>> the message. So I don't use the option in OE-Quotefix (which
>> is a
>> product I use) to move the cursor to the bottom; I want to
>> decide
>> for myself where to put the cursor.
>
> I agree that is the preferred way I like to reply too. It's
> just that
> when I do that, I had to also copy and paste the signature from
> the
> top to the bottom. But that is all fixed now.


For that reason, I don't have Outlook Express put my signature in
automatically, but add it myself by clicking on "Insert
Signature."


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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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