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From: Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: rPI Goes Public
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 12:35:18 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:25:53 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 28/06/2024 21:04, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> 
>>> rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>> A lot of text invisibly in white on white
>> 
>> The message you replied to is a plaintext one and couldn't alter the 
>> foreground/background colours you see, even if it tried ...
>> 
> Correct. The message is formatted as 8 bit ASCII. Whatever colours the 
> reader have imposed on it is not the senders problem.
> I see it as medium grey on white for quoted stuff and black on white for 
> the post

Pan gives me a bit wider colour palette than that, with
  black on white for the post,
  green on white quoting the previous poster
  orange on white 2nd-level quoting, and
  purple oh white 3rd-level quoting
with all four foreground colours being user selectable


-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills We Trust"