Nadia N. wrote:

With Thunderbird, only one of your messages looked pale. It was the one
replying to Adrian, and I think it was related to your quoting problem.
Adrian's name appears in the signature line of his posts, and since your
quoting didn't work correctly, when you replied to him your message was
just appended to the end of his, and was assumed by the newsreader to be
a part of his sig line, too :-) Signatures are displayed in a paler
color by some newsreaders (like Thunderbird).

You should be able to prevent this from happening by making sure to
delete the line from a quoted post that has only "--" on it (without the
quotes). That is the line which tells the newsreader that all the text
which follows is a sig, and should be colored differently.

Of course, some newsreaders automatically strip out the signature when
you reply to a post. If you can configure yours to do that, it should
also take care of the problem :-)

In many newsreaders, these kinds of effects are configurable. For example,
in my newsreader, if I were to surround a word with asterisks (indicating
emphasis - the text-only equivalent of a bold font), it displays in a more
pale color when I read the post. I could change this, though. Maybe I will -
it seems counterintuitive that something that's supposed to substitute for
bold comes out paler!

By the way, Nadia, how's Kotyo doing?

--
Joyce

Beauty and music seduce us first; later, ashamed of our own
sensuality, we insist on meaning. -- Clive Barker