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| DATE | 2005-03-03 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] We have truly lost it ....
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On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:30 -0500, Billy wrote:
> Martin, Jared wrote:
>
> > * Having linefeeds about every 80 characters makes editing a real chore -
> > Every time I go to add something in I have to change the linefeeds throught
> > the entire document. This is a menial task which should be handled by the
> > software.
>
> If it isn't, then YOUR software sucks.
> See if you can find a "rewrap" somewhere.
It goes without saying that it's damn near impossible to send e-mail
correctly using Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, or Lotus
(Notes) Mail. I swear Microsoft puts an ad in the paper like this:
WANTED: Developers who have no idea how e-mail works, and no
desire to change that to develop Microsoft e-mail products.
Your knowledge must be solely based upon having seen an e-mail
once somewhere or having sent a message at some point.
The motto is "It's been broke all this time, why fix it now?"
> > * Get a new e-mail client - I dare say most of the e-mail software in use
> > today handles this issue gracefully. I don't see how you can expect the world
> > to spend their precious time insterting characters into their e-mails that
> > the large majority of readers will never see, and which, those who do see it
> > could remedy the problem by simply using a more sophisticated e-mail client
> > or patch the one you're using.
>
> I am using Thunderbird 1.0 and mutt4. These are both less than a year old.
> The issue cannot be handled gracefully by an non-psychic program.
Evolution also handles this properly. In fact the only two companies
I'm aware of that can't seem to get e-mail right are Microsoft and
Lotus/IBM. I guess they're too big to have to do things correctly.
- Ron
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