Hehe Jack, I would really like to share that trick with you given the price you are offering, but in all seriousness: If you had just included a few lines of text more, you couldn't help getting the right person in the text as well. I actually think that it is pretty nifty that when you respond to someone's mail you automatically get the name on the one who send you the mail. But if you quote a quote, you ought to be smart enough and take the name of the writer with you. It is right there for you to use. I did however have a look at all the files relating to Mail, including a bunch of .plist files, but as there is no apparent way to disable the name of the sender, I guess you have to wait for Panther and see if the promised overhaul of the Mail.app is bringing what you need. Cheers, Kim -- 12 days, 19 hours 7 minutes to go - http://www.apple.com On 11/10/03 22:07, "Jack Rodgers" <jackrodgers at earthlink.net> wrote: > On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 07:49 AM, Kim Gammelgaard wrote: > >> Thank you for the hint, Jack, but I never wrote anything like the text >> you >> quote me for. > > A gift from Apple and the stupid idea to make Mail.app point to the > sender of the email as the writer of any text quoted. I refuse to take > responsibility for this even though I could have deleted the attribute > line because I almost always forget to do so. > > If someone will supply me with the trick to stopping this by editing > the preference file, I promise when you die you will be surrounded by > 70 Virginians.