On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 18:41, Talpianna at aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 11/18/2003 3:43:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU writes: > Were maids allowed openly to have mistresses? Even in gay Paree that > might have been a bit much. > > Seriously, I don't understand how this is effective one-up-womanship. > > > p.s. your Re software makes it hard to keep attribution clear. > ================================================================= > It made the blazing display look over-the-top and tacky. I guess you have to > be female to appreciate it. Or possibly French. > > In MY message box, not only is the quoted message marked off with a line, but > my reply is in a different typeface (Comic Sans MS Bold). > > See if what I've done here works better. Its a little better, but still confusing. As someone who reads a fair amount of email, I'm used to those '>' as they help seperate things out for my at a glance. (plus my mail reader makes the text marked with '>'s a little lighter) With yours, every time I read them I still think the message was from you (with your old and new methods). I only realize my mistakeswhen I start recognizing text from earlier messages.