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[Dave Land]

On May 20, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Max Battcher wrote:

> You don't have to use a dedicated email program, but they certainly
> help.  On the other hand you could look into tools for your particular
> web browser to see if any would help with your email.
>
> Looking for Firefox I found no plugins and 1 semi-working GreaseMonkey
> scripts that would help you Jon:

Hey! Another GreaseMonkey fan. I have contributed a couple of scripts
to that repository of scripty greatness and have written a couple of
dozen more for my own personal use. GreaseMonkey completely changed how
I use the Web, and I've been using the Web since 1994 (actually, it's
been using me for the majority of that time).

That said, I believe that Brother Jon has made it clear that he is not  
a technophile, and even some heavy-duty technophiles find GreaseMonkey  
a bit daunting to grasp what the heck it is and what it's doing.

> * http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5594 - For Yahoo! Mail: Colors  
> each level of > indentation differently so that you can visually  
> distinguish the differences when reading quoted email.  (I can't  
> believe  that Yahoo! still doesn't do this automatically!?‽)  
> Caveat: Only works with "Classic" view.
>
> I couldn't find an easy plugin to do Paste as (Email) Quotation, which
> seems a shame.  I would assume that you could easily adapt one from
> Thunderbird's source...
>
> I did not find any addons for IE that would help.

I did not find anything about IE that would help anybody, under any  
circumstances. As a Web developer, I believe that Microsoft should be  
fined many hundreds of billions of dollars for all the Web developers'  
and end-users' time that their turd-in-the-punch-bowl of a browser has  
wasted.

Dave