"Nadia N." wrote in message
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MaryL wrote:


"MLB" wrote in message ...

On 06/03/2012 11:31 AM, MaryL wrote:


"Adrian" wrote in message
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"MaryL" wrote:
I'm testing this method. I have not been able to send messages to
newsgroups for some time, so I am checking to see if I can get through
this way.

MaryL

I see you, I hope your problem has been solved.



Your messages show up here but are so pale I can hardly read them. MLB

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I don't have any idea why that would be, so I don't know how to change it.
I post in plain text and do not use colors. Everyone's messages look
exactly the same to me, with regard to print intensity.

Does anyone have any ideas what would cause this?

MaryL

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 :-)

Nadia, Kotyo and Sweety

Little Monster pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Kotyo
Sweety pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/Sweety
Kotyo and Sweety together:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nnakova/KotyoAndSweety

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Thanks, I can do that (and did here). However, I'm puzzled because all
messages look the same (ordinary black print) when I read them.

I got rid of Thunderbird. It picked up messages from my private mail that I
do not use for newsgroups and placed them in the online Thunderbird mail. I
do not like that.

MaryL