Hi Hans,
Looking back on this, is it possible to add a key like
[notetextcommand=
===== Original Message From "Thomas A. Schmitz"
===== Idris, here's my hack for achieving this footnote format (which seems much more common in the humanities than the default provided by ConTeXt):
\def\NoteNumber#1{\hbox to 15pt{\hfill #1.}}
\setupfootnotes[rule=off, distance=-3em, margindistance=-3em, numbercommand=\NoteNumber]
\def\MyFootnote#1{\footnote{\hskip4em #1}}
============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523