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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 29 Nov 1998.
Re: Lead spaces and Outlook Express?

Re: Lead spaces and Outlook Express?

.----- On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:08:57 GMT, Martin Atkins posted:
|.----- On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 08:48:45 -0500, K.A. Lundberg posted:
||Is there something about the number of lead spaces needed in Outlook
||Express?  It seems that all lines with just one blank space at the
||beginning will move all the way to the left skewing the drawing.
||Lines that begin on the first space or that have two blank lead spaces
||stay put.  Am I doing something wrong in the mail program or is this a
||problem with Outlook Express?
|'-----------------------------
|This is an Outlook Express 'bug' ... although it's not a real bug since
|Microsoft probably intended it that way - why I don`t know.
|
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.------------------------------------------------.
| Outlook Explode                      [_][O] [X]|
|-------------------------------------------+----|
|.-----. .-----. .-----. .-----. .-----.    |mga |
||WRITE| |SEND.| | GET | | DEL | |EXIT |    | mga|
|'-----' '-----' '-----' '-----' '-----'    +----|
|------------------------------------------------|
|Outlook Expl|||From     |Subject      |Recieved |
| - InBox.-----------------------------.         |
| - OutBo| Warning                  [X]|---------|
| - Sent |-----------------------------|         |
| - Draft| Sending messages with this  |         |
| + news.| program makes messages      |---------|
|   o alt| look crap to anyone not     |         |
|   o alt| using it                    |         |
|        | .-----------.  .---------.  |         |
|        | |Send Anyway|  |Uninstall|  |         |
|        '-+-----------+--+---------+--'         |
|            |                                   |
|            |                                   |
|------------------------------------------------|
|Ready.                                       [?]|
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-Martin
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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Lead spaces and Outlook Express?
Date: 1998/11/29
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