"notbob" > wrote
>
> Thanks for the info, Ed. I've noticed this new phenom in more than a
> few posts, lately, and suspected all you've explained. This is
> typical of Microsoft, the arrogant attempt to generate their own
> standards and bucking long established one's. Fortunately, OE makes
> such a crappy email/news readers in the first place, even hardcore
> Windows users dump it in favor of a better Choices. Agent seems to be
> the favorite alternative, though not the only one. Do us all a favor
> and do likewise.
>
> http://www.newsreaders.com/win/clients.html
>
> I've been playing with Xpn, which I like better than 40tude. There
> might be some OE config resources on the above website.
>
>
> nb

MS did one good thing in recent operating systems. System Restore. I did
that last night and dumped the new Windows Live mail and reverted back to
the older 2010 version. It allows the use of the > to mark threads. I
tried Agent and did not care for it, but I may try some others.