Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:39:06 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian Sobolak <brian@planetshwoop.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken mail Message-ID: <20040820010906.GE85432@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <41254E39.508@planetshwoop.com> References: <seeai01okg2r9ae1onkm9pgtk7687orlu4@4ax.com> <20040820004055.GC85432@wantadilla.lemis.com> <41254E39.508@planetshwoop.com>
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--0k24IdCjZr+ZpLJG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 19 August 2004 at 20:04:57 -0500, Brian Sobolak wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Friday, 20 August 2004 at 0:57:26 +0100, John Murphy wrote: > >>> Never used Outlook or Outlook Express myself but I get the >>> impression that what they see is NOT what they send. >> >> >> I used to think that too, for the obvious reason that you can't >> understand why anybody would send such a broken message. Since then, >> I've come to the realization that yes, indeed, a very large number of >> people *do* send obviously broken text. The main reason seems to be >> that it's just too difficult to get right. > > This is totally true. Outlook on the PC absolutely can't deal with line > breaks appropriately. It was the single most frustrating thing about it. > > That was, of course, until I had to use Lotus Notes as my MUA again. > Makes Outlook appear like a dream. Heh. Been there, done that. > And again I'll say: anything Outlook does poorly, Lotus can do > worse. You'd struggle to find a worse MUA. Agreed. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --0k24IdCjZr+ZpLJG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBJU8yIubykFB6QiMRAj1cAJ9ZFFyZMq8vjvaNiP3dTV9T3/XNUgCfdtQ0 S1eiAt6bkdR+ym61wnG51T0= =Hbcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0k24IdCjZr+ZpLJG--
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