On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 21:38:44 +0000, Stimpy wrote:

Paul Weaver wrote:

He may well be using the new Google service, which seems to ignore
accepted Usenet convention.

HE is (see the headers). Outlook express has done this for years,
sadly it's the only usenet client approved for use here at work and
takes a mighty effort to fix it for every reply.

If you apply the OE-Quotefix patch, the problem goes away

Ahh, but that would break the Computer Use policies. While I'll "bend"
them enough to be able to do my job (i.e. vnc, putty, mozilla etc), I
don't think modifiying a usenet client would qualify . If it would, I'd
install a decent client.

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