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[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:28 -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> >  
> > My problem with Evolution is not where it places the cursor. I can put
> > it wherever I want. 

I surely hope that this is true for every mail client! :)
The problem with defaults, however, is always that they encourage
certain behavior, especially among those who don't know better

> The problem I have is that I can't quote with
> > attribution for  one message without turning quoting on for all
> > messages. I only want to quote the messages I feel I need to quote
> > parts of. I like the "paste quotation" option, but it doesn't include
> > an attribution. Do I have to turn on quoting of entire messages for
> > all messages I send in order to get an attribution? 

Not sure that I understand what you mean, but maybe this helps: you can
select a part of the message that you want to reply to, and press the
reply button after that. Then only the selected part will be quoted

> The other question
> > is why can't I tailor the attribution of quotes in Evolution as I can
> > in other mail clients? In other words, there is a set attribution in
> > Evolution, but other mail clients allow my attribution to be whatever
> > I want it to be. I can have the typical on 1/2/34 somebody
> > somebody at somewhere.com wrote or I can say somebody spake thusly or I
> > don't care what he said, but somebody said if that's what I want it to
> > say.

I don't know, I guess the developers didn't see this as an important
feature, and neither do I FWIW. I'd prefer everyone to quote the same in
order not to distract me needlessly :)