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From: Folkert Rienstra (see_reply-to_at_myweb.nl)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 01:12:17 +0200

"Martin Strand" <marstr2Clue@onlineclue.no.invalid> wrote in message news:opsa8pq4ofpp5iq3@id-238811.user.uni-berlin.de
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:55:43 +0100, Peter Hucker hucker@clara.co.uk wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:02:55 +0200, Martin Strand <marstr2Clue@onlineclue.no> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:33:45 +0100, Peter Hucker <hucker@clara.co.uk>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Neither am I.
> > >
> > > M2 works fine, and the only drawback with the free version of Opera is
> > > the
> > > small add-banners on the top.
> >
> > Well you can pay for it, get a pirate serial number, or get laser
> > surgery on that part of your eye so you don't see it.
>
> Or just live with it.
>
> > > BTW: Opera -- and most of the other news clients -- is of course set up
> > > to
> > > inline-quoting, which is a nice thing.
> > > With OE, you can fix that by installing OE-QuoteFix.
> >
> > Not sure what you mean - all news clients quote?
>
> That was a hint to those extreme top-posters earlier in the tread.

> OE sucks with proper quoting,

So do all the others. They all have auto linebreak settings.

> and tries to enforce top-quoting --

No, it doesn't.

> OE-QuoteFix fixes that,

No, it doesn't,

> as the name says...

it fixes (tries to but doesn't always succeed as can be seen in this post) butchered quotes such as

> > > the
and
> > > to

and some other nuissances such quoted signatures and the stuff,
and compress and or standardize indentation.

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