le 26/04/00 6:17, Joe Lewis Wilkins à PepeToo@... a écrit : > I hope I didn't sound too condescending, Robert, but my eye-sight isn't what I > used to be and I need all the help I can get when it come > to "clarity". It would seem however that you're using a mail client that displays HTML text, or you have strange settings for text. If quotes appear as italics than either: - switch off HTML display [it's yukey anyway] - change the settings to something other than than Italic [much more legible] - see if you can incorporate an external style sheet that overrides the default settings] In my book quotemarks are welcome as they allow one to build up the interplay of cross posts that come to make up a post. :-j [gnome eyes seem strangely to have withstood decades of peering at screens...]